October 21, 2017
This post contains a summary of INFCIRC/549 reports by the countries that submit annual civilian plutonium declarations that reflect the status of civilian plutonium stocks as of 31 December 2016.
1. Japan (INFCIRC/549/Add.1-20) reported having 9.9 tons of plutonium in the country and 37.1 tonnes abroad (the 2015 numbers were 10.7 and 37.1 tons respectively). In August 2017 Japan also released a more detailed internal version of this report, "The Status (...)