Global Inventory of Separated Plutonium 2017

(Data: End of 2015 Unit: ton)

 

Country Military Use(ton) Non-military Use(ton)
Russia 94.0 89.4
US 38.3 49.3
France 6.0 63.4
China 1.8 0.03
UK 3.2 106.2
Israel 0.88
Pakistan 0.22
India 6.19 0.4
North Korea 0.03  
Japan 47.9
Germany 1.8
Other Countries   2.4
Total 150.6 360.8

 

 

Military: Plutonium used in nuclear warheads or stored for use in weapons; plutonium that is reserved for possible military uses in the future.

Non-military: Plutonium separate-ed from spent nuclear fuel from a nuclear reactor for non-military purposes; plutonium declared as surplus for nuclear weapons.

The stockpile of fissile materials includes estimated ones with large uncertainties and thus total quantities are expressed in rounded numbers.

©RECNA Fissile Material Data Monitoring Team

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Japan, 2016: INFCIRC/549/Add.1/19 (19 August 2016), https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/infcirc549a1-19.pdf

Kingdom of Belgium, 2016: INFCIRC/549/Add.3/15 (18 May 2016), https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/infcirc549a3-15.pdf

People’s Republic of China, 2016: INFCIRC/549/Add.7/15 (19 September 2016), https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/infcirc549a7-15.pdf

Russian Federation, 2016: INFCIRC/549/Add.9/18 (7 June 2016), https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/infcirc549a9-18.pdf

Swiss Confederation, 2016: INFCIRC/549/Add.4/20 (21 January 2016), https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/infcirc549a4-20.pdf

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United States of America, 2016-2: INFCIRC/549/Add.6/19 (14 October 2016), https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/infcirc549a6-19.pdf

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