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The government-owned plant unwittingly exposed the workers and the environment to small amounts of plutonium, and greatly underestimated the health risks posed by exposure to uranium.
At the Los Angeles Times , it's the announcement (made while Al Gore was in Moscow on a state visit) that Russia has promised to stop making weapons-grade plutonium.
Strong reviews for this collection of stories set in Soviet Russia: These "crafty, nerve-rattling tales are among the most unusual and interesting now being written" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Characters range from a nuclear reactor employee who tries to steal and sell the plutonium of the title in order to support his family after he gets radiation poisoning, to a girl who is convinced there is a link between her onset of puberty and the death of Stalin.
Quoting a "secret document from the American Department of Energy," it said in its lead story that "Israel has 300 to 500 kilograms of weapon-grade plutonium, which means it can produce at least 250 nuclear weapons."
The Washington Post goes with the finding of American experts that Russia's economic crisis has left its stocks of uranium and plutonium increasingly vulnerable to theft and diversion.