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

New Delhi (AFP): France and India will be signing a nuclear energy deal during the Indian Prime Minister’s visit to France on September 30, 2008. The deal is similar to the one India has signed with the United States. …

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Once again Britain finds itself riven by controversy over nuclear energy and environmentalism, and after a decade or so of being out of the spotlight, James Lovelock’s Gaia theories again seem to be becoming more popular. …

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Civil nuclear power began life as a heavily state-subsidised industry largely designed to produce plutonium for bombs. Civil nuclear power was part of the military-industrial complex and shrouded in secrecy. …

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The exposure of workers, and to a smaller extent of the public, to low levels of radiation from nuclear energy production and other industrial uses of ionising radiation have become an integral part of industrialised society. …

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fission [a splitting; in atomic fission, the nucleus of an atom is split to produce nuclear energy] Nuclear fission splits atoms to produce energy. fusion [a joining together; in atomic fusion, atomic particles are joined together to …

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21 (Bloomberg) — South Korea may suspend planned energy supply to North Korea if the communist regime accelerates processes for restarting its nuclear reactor, Yonhap news agency reported. North Korea has begun restoring three …

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Here are my speculations on the thinking in North Korea’s military that led to yesterday’s announcement that Washington could go sit on a tack and that the Yongbyon nuclear reactor was being reassembled. …

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The US and South Korea plan to cut energy aid to North Korea if it speeds up its efforts to restore its partially disabled nuclear reactor, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency has reported. It also could adversely affect non-proliferation …

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“Thorough preparations” are under way to restart North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear reactor, the Foreign Ministry announced over the weekend. The plant, which produces weapons-grade plutonium, was being dismantled under the …

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In 1974, the Shah of Iran stated his belief that Iran ’s oil reserves would eventually be depleted, and with German help initiated plans for the construction of the Bushehr nuclear reactor. Building on the Nixon Doctrine, in which Iran …

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