Abstract
The vision of cheap energy independence through civil nuclear power has faded in the late 198os as the costs of nuclear programmes have come to light. But present nuclear plans in Japan, France and Britain are set to produce quantities of plutonium in the 1990S which, the authors argue, will be surplus to requirements and very difficult to use. The over-production of plutonium will pose political and security problems-particularly for Japan, which owns large stocks of separated plutonium in Europe that it may not be able to bring back home. Nuclear strategy in Japan and Europe needs to be rethought if serious international problems are to be avoided.
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