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

A reprocessing plant can extract the plutonium from the rods. It then can be blended with uranium again for use in a nuclear energy reactor or used to fuel nuclear weapons. Arms control experts estimate that if North Korea reprocessed …

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The Second stage envisages setting up of fast breeder reactors backed by reprocessing plants and plutonium based fuel fabrication plants. In order to expand the nuclear capacity in the country fast breeder reactors are necessary. …

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North Korea plans to start reinserting some of the plutonium-producing nuclear material into its Yongbyon reactor within a week, the chief UN nuclear inspector said Wednesday. More…

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and will be producing plutonium for nuclear weapons in a few months. There is no doubt that North Korea got a cash offer for its nukes. IAEA removed seals and surveillance equipment from the reactor area. …

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It would take years, by contrast, for North Korea to produce fresh nuclear fuel if it decided to restart its nuclear reactor, which is also on the complex at Yongbyon. The decision by the North was a serious setback both for the Bush …

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For nearly two decades now no new nuclear reactor has gone on-line in America whereas Russia, China and Japan are racing towards operationalising third generation and even fourth generation nuclear reactors. While Russia is well on the …

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North Korea has now barred UN inspectors from its nuclear facilities, and announced plans to restart Yongbyon, the same complex that previously provided plutonium for its nuclear program. Within a year, Yongbyon could again be producing …

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… standards of the New York Post, the headline seemed lurid: CHILLING DISCOVERY AFTER MANIAC’S THREAT: PLUTONIUM IN CITY’S WATER. Have New York City’s 7 million residents been imbibing water that is laced with nuclear-reactor fuel? …

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PARIS: North Korea has barred international inspectors from a nuclear reprocessing plant that produces weapons-grade plutonium and intends to resume activity there in a week, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday. …

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… reactivates the plant that once provided plutonium for an atomic test explosion. North Korea barred UN nuclear inspectors from its main nuclear reactor on Wednesday, and within a week, it plans to reactivate the plant that once [. …

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