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Re: Greenpeace says N-shipment to Japan dangerous





On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Sandy Perle wrote:

> containers of recycled MOX -- plutonium-uranium mixed oxide -- would 
> contain some 500 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium. 

	--Apparently Greenpeace doesn't even understand what is meant by
"weapons grade" plutonium

Bernard L. Cohen
Physics Dept.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tel: (412)624-9245
Fax: (412)624-9163
e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu


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