Missing plutonium

[bwh]

Heard as I was waking up: 30 kg of plutonium is unaccounted for at Sellafield. But the audit "does not represent any material going missing", according to the DTI. So that's OK then. Obviously they have another set of accounts that explains it all, but which they can't show us, since otherwise they couldn't possibly know.

For reference, that's 7 bombs' worth.

Comments

[artela.livejournal.com]

The news report I heard on R4 this morning intimated that the problem may be with "inaccuracies in measurements during recovery"... if the inaccuracies are all in the same direction then that could account for such a discrepancy.

[womble2.livejournal.com]

It seems like a strange kind of audit then, or maybe it's just typically distorted reporting.