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

Three stages of Govt. of india’s Nuclear energy programme: Stage I involves natural uranium fuelling pressurised heavy-water reactors (PHWRs). Stage II involves FBRs, based on plutonium extracted from the spent fuel of the first stage. …

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Myanmar has said they aimed to build a nuclear power plant for electricity but the Sydney Morning Herald reported recently that North Korea is helping Myanmar build a secret nuclear reactor and plutonium extraction plan. …

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… Nuclear Association, France is the largest exporter of nuclear energy in the world, earning EUR 3 billion from those exports. France also recycles or “reprocesses” used fuel, utilizing 30% more energy from the original plutonium. …

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As Ralph Nader pointed out in the 2008 presidential election, nuclear power plants are feedstocks for plutonium, which can be used to make nuclear bombs. Like most all nuclear power and weapons enthusiasts, nuclear’s new advocates …

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A large sector of the UK population remain sceptical about nuclear energy, how to deal with the waste and who is to pay being as yet unanswered questions. On the other hand the UK population as a whole does not appear prepared to make … India has recently had a shortage of fuel for its Heavy Water reactors. heavy water reactors can turn the U-235 and plutonium in nuclear waste into nuclear fuel. Since Indian reactors have recently been operating at 50% of capacity, …

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President Ahmadinejad has responded to claims of his intentions to have plutonium converted for nuclear bombs, by repeatedly retorting this and claiming, its for nuclear energy. CIA intelligence claim, that even if it does want to build …

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If India can have such a great deal, perhaps it is incumbent upon the five NWS and the IAEA to do a better job facilitating for nuclear energy partnerships for all countries around the world, most of which have actually joined the NPT and … The limiting factor for the transition from a virtual nuclear power into an actual nuclear power is the approximately 6-month period it would take to enrich energy-grade uranium into weapons-grade uranium or reprocess plutonium into …

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A new report commissioned by the International Atomic Energy Agency says that Iran’s nuclear energy program may contain “military dimensions.” In other words, the report states that Iran may be working towards acquiring a nuclear weapons … All are equipped to enrich uranium; plutonium is the specialty of Arak. Esfahan and Natanz are built to withstand heavy aerial attack (Natanz is 75 feet under bedrock) and are protected by sophisticated antiaircraft missile batteries. …

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The IAEA also states that Iran has completed nearly two-thirds of the heavy water reactor at Arak, which is capable of generating an output of 40 megawatts and manufacturing plutonium. The IAEA report, which was submitted by the outgoing … spokesman Ian Kelly said Friday in Washington. “They say they want to have the right to a civilian nuclear energy program, but they also have the obligation to show the world that that is indeed what they intend to do,” he said. …

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For three decades - significantly, the years after the near meltdown of Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant in 1979 - not a single power company applied for a nuclear reactor license. Since 2007, 20 applications were filed …. Two years in a reactor depletes little of the U-235, and it creates another fissionable material: plutonium. Just as plutonium from weapons is used to enrich uranium in MOX, plutonium also can be used to enrich U-238 into nuclear fuel. …

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