This article exposes the dangerous link between civilian nuclear power and nuclear weapons development. It reveals how reactors designed for energy production can also be used to create nuclear weapons, highlighting historical examples and current threats.
Nuclear reactors were originally designed to make bombs. They still do, in what are called dual-use reactors. These produce plutonium while simultaneously generating electricity. Chernobyl was a dual-use reactor. People often pretend that bomb-making reactors have nothing to do with civilian power plants. Actually, the two are joined at the hip, relying on the same technology and personnel. They share the same infrastructure and produce the same radioactive material.
The United States currently uses the civilian reactors of the Tennessee Valley Authority to make tritium for hydrogen bombs.A medium-sized reactor produces enough plutonium for 20 nuclear weapons per year. A breeder reactor produces enough for 50. The United States, with 93 reactors currently operating, plans to triple its nuclear power capacity by 2050. Zia Man, a research scientist at Princeton, and his colleague Alexander Glaser, in their article on 'Duel Use: Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power,' explain how the urge to build civilian reactors is really about building bombs. 'There is a long history of how states have inter-woven their civil and military nuclear ambitions and capabilities. UK, France, China, Israel, India, and Pakistan built their nuclear weapons programs on an infrastructure developed supposedly for nuclear energy. Iraq, North Korea, and Iran, all signatories of the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, concealed their nuclear weapons ambitions behind a 'peaceful' nuclear program.'The amount of plutonium unaccounted for or diverted by criminal gangs and rogue states now measures in the tons. Brokers sell plutonium and entire bomb-making factories on the black market. Abdul Quadeer Khan, who furnished nuclear weapons technology to Pakistan, Libya, Iran, and North Korea, advertised his services in a brochure decorated with a mushroom clou
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