Retrievability and Safeguards Concerns Regarding Plutonium in Geological Repositories

The political atom

“…Meeting the fifth criterion would also decrease the long-term risk that spent fuel repositories are mined for weapons material. 9 Williams and Feiveson concluded by stating: "Satisfying the criteria set forth here would not make nuclear power diversion-proof; no technical or institutional fix can do that. Nor would it prevent nations determined to acquire nuclear weapons from doing so.…”