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

May 27th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea appears to have restarted its nuclear reprocessing facility at Yongbyon to produce weapons-grade plutonium, a South Korean news report said Wednesday. Analysis of satellite images indicated … “China has never had any cooperation with the DPRK in nuclear energy development,” the Xinhua news agency quoted Wang Yiren, the head of the China’s Atomic Energy Authority, as telling reporters at a nuclear energy conference in Beijing on Monday. …

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Today’s topic: Catching up with nuclear reactor designs. Among the 31 new reactors already proposed or possible around the country, power companies are looking at five different reactor designs. Owners of three nuclear plants where one particular design was in … Uranium, thorium and plutonium are the fuels that can undergo nuclear fission to release heat. Coal, gas, oil, biomass are the fuels that undergo combustion to release heat. Though the end product is the same, …

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guarantee nuclear fuel for its light-water nuclear reactor has been successfully going on and has entered a trial stage.” Until now, North Korea had denied the existence of a uranium enrichment program. It was not clear if the statement …

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It said the country’s “development of uranium enrichment technology to guarantee nuclear fuel for its light-water nuclear reactor has been successfully going on and has entered a trial stage.” Until now, North Korea had denied the …

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A nuclear reactor fissions certain isotopes of uranium and plutonium which release energy with each fission. Fissile materials are those which will fission with thermal neutrons. A thermal neutron is one which has slowed down to the …

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The B-Reactor is the first full-scale nuclear reactor in the world. Built in just under a year, it is where they manufactured the plutonium that was in the “Fat Man” bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki at the end of WWII. …

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[3] IAEA inspection of the Arak site is a prerequisite to ensuring that Iran does not use the reactor complex under construction to separate plutonium from the reactor’s spent fuel. … Iran plans to begin operating a light water nuclear reactor at Bushehr during the summer of 2009.[16] In February 2009, Iran announced the successful testing of the Bushehr reactor.[17] Begun in the mid 1970s, the Bushehr project temporarily halted after the 1979 Iranian revolution. …

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The IAEA has been investigating Syria since Israel bombed a Syrian site in 2007 that the U.S. says was a secret nuclear reactor built with North Korean help. The agency’s 35-nation board is preparing to debate allegations that Damascus … agency on Friday reported its second unexplained find of uranium particles at a Syrian nuclear site, in a probe launched by suspicions that a remote desert site hit by Israeli warplanes was a nearly finished plutonium producing reactor. …

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… acknowledgment by the reclusive communist state that it has a uranium program aside from its plutonium-based nuclear reactor, which had been in the process of being disabled under a six-party deal for the North’s denuclearization. …

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Russia has supplied fuel to Iran for a civilian nuclear reactor. Chinese President Hu Jintao also had a meeting scheduled with Iran’s president in Yekaterinburg, a Chinese official said. Iranian state television said Ahmadinejad was due … The DPRK has raised tension in the past few months by test-firing missiles, restarting a plant to produce weapons-grade plutonium and holding a nuclear test on May 25. On Afghanistan, Russia backed a US-led military operation launched …

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