PLUTONIUM SUB-DIRECTORY

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The Plutonium Connection

~ Nuclear Weapons ~


[ Nuclear Technology: A Primer ]

Nanoose Expropriation Hearings:   NEWS STORIES AND TESTIMONY:

[ CCNR Exhibits Filed at the Nanoose Expropriation Hearings (July/99) ]

[ House of Commons ~ Recommendations on Nuclear Weapons (Dec/98) ]

[ Canada and the Bomb: Past and Future (Edwards, August 98) ]

[ The Use of Canadian Uranium in the First Atomic Bombs: Verbatim Excerpts ('98) ]

[ How Uranium from Great Bear Lake Ended Up in A-Bombs: A Chronology ('98) ]

[ Canada's Role in the Bomb Programs of US, UK, France and India: A Chronology ]

[ Canada's Historic Role in Britain's Nuclear Weapons Programme ]

[ Canadian Plutonium Sold For American Bombs 1946-76 ]

[ Nuclear explosives using plutonium from a power reactor (US DOE '97) ]

[ Nuclear weapons using plutonium from a power reactor (US NAS '94) ]

[ American Nuclear Weapons Test Used Reactor-Grade Plutonium (US DOE) ]

[ For nuclear explosives, "All plutonium is good plutonium" (Sandia Labs '96) ]

[ Statement of the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ('98) ]

[ Eight ''Foreign Ministers'' Call for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons ('98) ]

[ 75 US Bishops Reject the American Policy of Nuclear Deterrence ('98) ]

[ International Civilian Leaders Statement on Nuclear Weapons (Feb 98) ]

[ Statement on Nuclear Weapons by International Generals and Admirals (Dec 96) ]

[ The Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ('96) ]

[ The Peaceful Atom Goes to War: Bomb Makers Against Plutonium ('78) ]

[ The United States Nuclear Arsenal in Miniature (photo) ]


Press Release   : The Indian Bomb Tests and Canadian Accountability

FLASH: Tritium from CANDU power reactors   aids India's H-bomb capability

FLASH: Hot-linked background articles   on India's nuclear weapons tests

FLASH: Canadian Continuing Nuclear Cooperation with India and Pakistan



[ A Map of India's Nuclear Facilities ]



The Plutonium Connection

~ Plutonium Imports to Canada ~


[ Nuclear Technology: A Primer ]


NEWS STORIES: Ottawa to import plutonium from US & Russia in 1999

Phone   1-888-758-9999   for a copy of Transport Canada's
September 21, 2000, approval of the Russian plutonium airlift
~ includes public comments  from Canadians and TC's responses ~

[ Deadline extended to Sept 15 for public comments on plutonium imports ]

[ CCNR's Submission to Transport Canada re. Russian plutonium (Aug 00) ]

[ Comments on AECL Plans for Plutonium from Moscow (Lyman Aug 00) ]

[ Isn't MOX one way to phase out plutonium? (Aug 2000) ]

[ Media Release : Groups demand truth on plutonium airlift plan (Aug 2000) ]

[ Transport Canada Assurances: ''Plutonium Will Not Be Flown'' (Nov '99) ]

[ Inadequate Regulations for Air Transport of Plutonium (Lyman 1997) ]

[ Ottawa tells Canadians fairy tales about plutonium (Edwards 2000) ]

[ NEW ! !   Policing Plutonium: The Civil Liberties Fallout (1975) ]

[ CELA Legal Opinion: Canadian airlift of plutonium was illegal (CELA 00/02) ]

[ How much plutonium does it take to overdose a person? (AECB/CCNR 00/02) ]

[ Why Russia's plutonium should be immobilized and not burned (BAS 98/06) ]

[ ''Do not approve plutonium imports'' ~ CCNR to Transport Canada (Oct 99) ]

[ Ontario is not actively planning to use plutonium (MOX) fuel (Aug 99) ]

[ Hot Leftovers from a Cold War -- Plutonium Imports into Canada (July 99) ]

[ 1999 EMO Meeting in NS on plutonium transport ~ before it was scrapped ]

[ What does ''burning weapons plutonium in nuclear reactors'' mean? (NAS '94) ]

[ Using Weapons-Derived Plutonium to Fuel CANDU Reactors (AECL '97) ]

[ US-Russia Agreement on Plutonium Disposition (Sept 1 '98) ]

[ Which routes (Los Alamos to Chalk River) will plutonium shipments take? ]

[ March 16, 1998 -- Plutonium : An International Action Day ]

[ ''Plutonium, Hell No'' or ''Hello, Plutonium'' (Feb '98) ]

[ CCNR Brief: Plutonium Fuel Shipments, US to Canada (Sept 17 '97) ]

[ US Environmental Assessment: Plutonium from US to Canada (Sept 13/97) ]

[ MOX Experience -- Plutonium in Canada (Griffiths, July 1997) ]

[ Action Alert: Plutonium and Democracy in Canada (May '97) ]

[ NIRS Letter to President Clinton About Plutonium (Jan. 1997) ]

[ CCNR's Position on Plutonium Imports (Sept. 1996) ]

[ CCNR Fax to Jean Chrétien Regarding Plutonium Imports (April 1996) ]

[ Nuclear Awareness Project: Keep Plutonium Out Of Canada (April'96) ]

[ Brief on Plutonium Imports by Nuclear Awareness Project (July'96) ]

[ Plutonium Anyone? -- Ploughshares Article by G. Edwards ('95) ]



~ Background on Plutonium ~

[ Nuclear Technology: A Primer ]

[ Findings on Plutonium : both Civilian and Military ]

[ Canadian Plutonium Sold For American Bombs 1946-76 ]

[ How to make a bomb using plutonium from a power reactor (US DOE '97) ]

[ How to make a bomb using plutonium from a power reactor (US NAS '94) ]

[ American A-Bomb Test Used Reactor-Grade Plutonium (US DOE) ]

[ Current AECL plans to commercialize plutonium ('94) ]

[ Fueling the Nuclear Arms Race -- and How to Stop It (Edwards '85) ]

[ The Peaceful Atom Goes to War: Bomb Makers Against Plutonium ('78) ]

[ What is Reprocessing? Past AECL Plans for Plutonium ('77) ]

[ AECL's Master Plan : a plutonium economy in Canada ('77) ]

[ The Flowers Report (UK) : Warnings about the Plutonium Economy ('76) ]

[ How much plutonium does it take to make a bomb? (photo) ]

[ Dr. Theodore Taylor: Plutonium and the Bomb (photo) ]

[ Breeding plutonium-239 from uranium-238 (animation) ]

[ Nuclear fission using uranium-235 or plutonium-239 (animation) ]

[ What Does Radiation from Plutonium Look Like? (photo + closeup) ]

[ The nuclear fuel chain -- including plutonium (flow chart) ]

[ The World's First Plutonium Production Reactor (photo) ]

[ The World's First Large Plutonium Reprocessing Plant (photo) ]

[ How is high-level radioactive liquid waste cooled? (Flowers, 1976) ]

[ Post-Reprocessing High Level Radioactive Liquid Waste Tanks (photo) ]


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