Le plutonium dans l’environnement – études radioécologiques menées dans la basse vallée du Rhône.

Renaud P., Duffa C., Louvat D. Contrôle : La revue de l’autorité de sûreté nucléaire N° 138 (janvier 2001), 44-98.

This document is made up of a series of short articles concerning plutonium. The different topics that are tackled, are: 1) the properties of plutonium, 2) MOX (mixed oxide) fuel in French power plants, 3) MOX fuel safety, 4) MOX fuel and back-end cycle, 5) safety in the Melox plant that produces MOX fuel, 6) plutonium and environment, 7) safety of plutonium transport, 8) French regulations about plutonium, 8) international agreements concerning the processing of military plutonium, 9) decontamination of equipment contaminated with Pu, and 10) Pu and deep geological storage.