Archive for July 3rd, 2009

Arctic Korea 'standard fires projectiles' « Jeka2's Blog

… confabulations reasoned at ending Arctic Korea’s nuclear aspirations appeared humble earlier this year, Pyongyang said it would “weaponise” its plutonium descents and start ornamenting uranium for a light-water nuclear reactor. …

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North Korea 'test fires missiles' again, tension grows in the

After six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear ambitions broke down earlier this year, Pyongyang said it would “weaponise” its plutonium stocks and start enriching uranium for a light-water nuclear reactor. …

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Friday, July 3rd, 2009

BURMA DIGEST » Article » U.S. Blacklists Companies Suspected of

The regime possesses a known plutonium-based program (Reuters, June 30). Namchongang is also thought to have been instrumental in providing material used in construction of a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor that was destroyed in a 2007 …

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Nuclear Energy by David Bodansky « Amateur Earthling

… future to go digging around in the waste repository: once the dangerous fission products have decayed away, the remaining fissile actinides potentially become available for weaponization, that is, the waste repository becomes a so- called “plutonium mine”. … which transmute naturally occurring, relatively abundant nuclides (Th-232 and U-238) into fissile fuels (U-233 and Pu-239) by exposing them to intense neutron bombardment from an operational nuclear reactor. …

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