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What Could Happen to Plutonium Stockpiles?

The fear of plutonium falling into the wrong hands

The physicist Joseph Rotblat and Tom Cochran of the Nuclear program at the Natural Resources Defense Council talk about what could happen if plutonium fell into the wrong hands. While Bill Wilkinson of the British Nuclear Industry Forum talks about how the stockpile of 1000 tonnes of plutonium (a byproduct of conventional nuclear power stations) can be recycled.

Also on the programme the drug companies that are looking to the oceans for new medicines and could tourists save the giant otter in Guyana?

Presenter: Jill Neville. Producer: Karen Chilton.

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This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project