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Plutonium is a heavy, radioactive, man-made, metallic element used in the production of nuclear energy.

… and plutonium, to apply pressure to difficult regimes or to provide other countries with assurances of nuclear-fuel services (both providing and removing the fuel needed for civilian nuclear energy), Russia plays a central role. …

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will Monday inaugurate here a two-day international conference on nuclear disarmament that will - without hindering wider use of nuclear energy - focus on insulating the world from the danger of the atomic …

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Backers say Global Nuclear Energy Partnership would reduce the risk of proliferation, because unlike the old reprocessing techniques, still used in some countries, the new ones would not yield pure plutonium. But today eight kilograms …

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MOSCOW Russia closed down the second of its three remaining plutonium-producing reactors Thursday, part of a years-long effort by Moscow and Washington to shutter the Cold War-era facilities that produced material for nuclear weapons. …

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Syria will allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect the plowed-under-and-built-upon remains of the Al-Kibar nuclear reactor that was destroyed by IAF jets in September 2007. But it won’t allow the IAEA to inspect the …

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Russia has shut down the second of its three plutonium-producing reactors as part of a nuclear nonproliferation program with the United States, the Energy Department said. The remaining reactor at the once-closed city of Seversk in …

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At that time, Vanunu was a thirty-one-year-old Israeli who had worked for ten years in a top secret underground bunker at Dimona in the Negev Desert, the site of Israel’s nuclear reactor and the country’s nuclear research establishment. …

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1981 – The Israeli Air Force attacked and disabled the Osirak nuclear reactor, assuming it was producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program. Picture of the Day A male Leopard Lacewing (Cethosia cyane), …

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Russia is helping Tehran construct a nuclear reactor in Bushehr, which has nothing to do with uranium enrichment–the most serious proliferation danger. Theoretically, Russia could use Bushehr as leverage to influence Iran’s position on …

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