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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.
A WP op-ed by two former government nuclear power specialists details an important fact about India's nuclear weapons program that has drawn little notice: the plutonium India dipped into for its recent bomb tests was provided nearly forty years ago as part of an "Atoms for Peace" reactor built by Canada and fueled by the U.S.
It's hard to believe that an explosion that vented plutonium into the atmosphere at the country's largest nuclear weapons storage facility doesn't make anybody's front page, but in fact you have to go inside the LAT and WP to read about the "near-complete breakdown in emergency response" at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation two months ago after an accident there, "exposing workers to a toxic plume and leaving outside authorities unaware of the danger until hours after the event."
For the outer planets, there are uranium, neptunium, and plutonium.
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.
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