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Thu 17 Feb, 2005 09:58 pm
Quote:The annual audit of nuclear material at all of Britain's civil nuclear installations revealed that the plutonium ?- enough for seven or eight nuclear bombs ?- was classified as "material unaccounted for" last year.
The revelation that such a large amount of plutonium has apparently disappeared has been described as merely an "accounting issue" by British Nuclear Fuels, which operates the plant.
However, it is likely to cause embarrassment as the British Nuclear Group and the Department of Trade and Industry are weeks away from completing a huge shake-up in the nuclear industry, with the creation of an independent Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
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You require about 3.5kgs of the stuff to produce an atomic bomb (don't try it at home though folks!). This is the kind of 'discrepancies' that would lead to the invasion of places like Iran and Nth Korea - imagine President Bush or Condi Rice.....
"Well it's enough to make about 9 nuclear devices, but they've assured us it's more of a clerical error. Nothing to worry about".
I'm sure it will turn up as a paperweight on some-one's desk. Or exploding over some Middle-Eastern nation. It's a MAD MAD MAD world!
Think about what response the world would represent if these stuff was missed from Russia or China
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