Fifteen pounds of plutonium is enough for one atomic bomb. A few specks of plutonium inhaled into the lungs can cause cancer. Yet, the United States is about to abandon 20 years of anti-plutonium policy by turning tons of surplus military plutonium into fuel for your local nuclear power plant. How close do you live to one of the plants that want to use this plutonium as fuel?

Visit the Nuclear Control Institute's new Web site (http://www.nci.org/nci/nci-wpu.htm) for interactive maps that zoom you in to the plant and utility company closest to your home. Also on our Plutonium Disposal Site are :

• - links to 14 national organizations that have joined to fight for the alternative approach of directly disposing of plutonium as waste;
• - information on the nuclear-proliferation and terrorism risks of using plutonium as reactor fuel;
• -information on how plutonium fuel makes nuclear-power reactors more dangerous to operate and increases the consequences of a reactor accident.

Your comments are welcome.

Paul Leventhal

President

Nuclear Control Institute

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