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

And new technologies such as the reprocessing system recently introduced in Japan (in which the plutonium is never separated from the uranium) can make it much more difficult for terrorists or rogue states to use civilian materials to …

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Military stockpiles of highly enriched uranium worldwide equal more than two thousand - enough to provide many years of fuel for all the world’s nuclear reactors. This does not even include military stockpiles of plutonium, which can …

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Moreover, plutonium is a fissile material, which means it can be used to create a nuclear fission explosion. In the hands of people intent upon making a weapon, it constitutes a major threat to life, and an explosion used to incite …

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No one has died of a radiation-related accident in the history of the U.S. civilian nuclear reactor program. (And although hundreds of uranium mine workers did die from radiation exposure underground in the early years of that industry, …

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“Any nuclear reactor fueled by uranium makes plutonium as an unavoidable byproduct,” says Gordon Thompson, a physicist and executive director of the Institute for Resource and Security Studies, a think tank in Cambridge, Mass. …

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… uranium for nuclear-reactor fuel but which could also be used to produce highly-enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. And the heavy-water research reactor being built at Arak could produce plutonium for use in nuclear weapons. …

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