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

A shipment of mixed oxide fuel (MOX), a blend of plutonium and uranium, arrived in Japan Monday from France so Japanese nuclear power plants could begin using it for the first time as early as the fall, media reports said. …

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The use of nuclear energy involves the work of several very different industrial plants. Each of these plant types has a specific hazardous potential. It starts with the dust in uranium mines, continues with potential and actual …

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It was a turning point for Canada, which stopped nuclear co-operation with India in 1974 after its government, used plutonium from a Canadian reactor to build an atomic bomb. The international community lifted a three-decade ban on …

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What about TVA receiving four million dollars from the U.S. Dept. of Energy to design a small scale nuclear waste reprocessing plant as part of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)? And if the proposed two unit … GNEP is a proposal to reprocess spent nuclear fuel from all over the world into plutonium fuel for use in new generation reactors still in development. Oak Ridge is one of about eleven sites in the U.S. being considered for the first full-sized plant . …

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The immediate opening of negociations on a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty that would prohibit the further production of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium. * An end to reliance on nuclear weapons as a part of military policy among nuclear states. * Giving oversight of the peaceful use of nuclear energy to the International Atomic Energy Agency and expanding the agency’s role to include the non-proliferation side of the treaty. * Developing an agreement on the production …

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They did, of course, build a nuclear reactor in the Syrian desert designed to produce plutonium for the purposes of having Syrian nuclear weapons and that got shut down when the Israelis bombed it. The fact is the North Koreans are one …

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US military officials said Wednesday there are signs of activity at North Korea’s partially disabled nuclear reactor complex that could indicate work to restart the facility and resume production of nuclear fuel. … North Korea is believed to have enough plutonium for at least a half-dozen weapons, but experts say it still has not mastered the miniaturization technology required to mount a nuclear warhead on a long-range missile. RATE THIS ARTICLE …

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Israel bombed North Korean built nuclear reactor in Syria. September 6, 2007, the IAF destroyed a North Korean-built plutonium production facility at Kibar, Syria. The destroyed installation was a virtual clone of North Korea’s Yongbyon …

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A weblog devoted to the discussion of thorium as a future energy resource, and the machine to extract that energy–the liquid-fluoride nuclear reactor. …. The other plus side is that - in theory - we can set the accelerator to reduce plutonium (hence the reduction in weaponisation you mentioned), which eliminates a great deal of the long lived stuff. Brollachain notes. The short point here is that no-one who has bothered to read the mountains of research on nuclear …

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The Clinton appeasement program for North Korea included hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, food, oil and even a nuclear reactor. However, the agreement was flawed and lacked even the most informal means of verification. … China sold Pyongyang a large shipment of tributyl phosphate, a key chemical used to extract plutonium and uranium from spent fuel rods for atomic bombs. U.S. Pressure on Asian Allies In contrast, the U.S. repeatedly told India, South Korea, …

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