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

“The country badly needs new nuclear plants to deal with the climate issue,” says John W. Rowe, chief executive officer of Exelon (EXC), currently the largest nuke operator, and chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry’s …

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The Yongbyon complex, built around a Soviet-era nuclear reactor, is the North’s only known source of plutonium. North Korea had started disabling the reactor and other parts of the complex last year under an agreement with the United …

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Feeding recycled fuel into such a reactor causes the heavier transuranics (plutonium 242, americium and curium) to accumulate. The proposed solution is a completely different type of nuclear reactor, one in which the neutrons get slowed …

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“North Korea did provide a declaration of its plutonium-related activities and did blow up the cooling tower of its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon,” Mr Bush said at the summit venue in Toyako. “That’s been verified and is a positive step, …

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