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

For all the fuss about nuclear energy, it actually accounts for a mere 2.1 percent of the energy used globally in 2006 [7] (see Table 1). The nuclear contribution to the world electricity generation was 14.8 percent; and has been slowly …

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With all of the issues surrounding the entire globe all we can here from the Republican party is drill baby drill and nuclear energy. What do we hear from the Democratic party? We’ll have to look at it, we’ll have to re-manage it and …

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Thorium-based nuclear fuels would leave far less waste plutonium than conventional fuels. However, Thorium based nuclear energy is still in experimental stages and most countries do not use this technology for economic reasons.

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I’m glad someone is at last pointing out that nuclear energy is cheap only if the US government (ie, our tax dollars) upports it However, we have a legacy from previous support. Every nuclear plant is surrounded by plutonium waste. …

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“The agency inspectors were … informed today that as of 14 October 2008, core discharge activities at the (nuclear) reactor would be resumed,” said a restricted IAEA document to the agency’s 35 board members obtained by The Associated …

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Angered at the US refusal to remove it from the blacklist, North Korea in the last few weeks moved toward restarting its nuclear reactor and other operations at Yongbyon. But Sung Kim, the head of the State Department’s Korea office, …

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Pyongyang began disabling its Yongbyon nuclear reactor in August as part of an international deal on its programme, but recently it made moves to reassemble the plant after Washington refused to remove North Korea from the terror …

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… that it was reprocessing plutonium at Yongbyon; that probably it was secretly enriching uranium or reprocessing plutonium apart from whatever was happening at Yonbyon, whose nuclear reactor was about to reach the end of its useful …

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Angry at Washington’s refusal to remove it from a terrorism blacklist, Pyongyang recently vowed to restart the Yongbyon nuclear reactor. Pyongyang had expected to be struck from the list weeks after it submitted a declaration in June of …

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North Korea will resume disabling the reactor at its plutonium-making nuclear complex, says an IAEA statement.

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