The exact number of Soviet military reactors is classified.
In the past, however, the spent fuel from both civil and military reactors has gone through exactly the same reprocessing line at Sellafield.
Department officials had hoped to follow the isotope separation project by building four new military reactors in Idaho at a cost close to $4 billion.
GA's proposal for a military reactor differs little in design from its civilian plant.
Last year, the U.S. shut all its military reactors for safety reasons.
At stake is the most ambitious and expensive Government program for building military nuclear reactors since the 1950's.
Meanwhile, the Department of Energy may be in the market for a reactor because of growing safety problems with its military reactors.
Kyshtym, for almost fifty years, had been the site of the Soviet Union's main military atomic reactors.
After the war, the Soviet Union expanded its research facilities, military reactors, and employed many scientists.
Opponents of a deteriorating military nuclear reactor filed suit yesterday to delay its reopening.