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

The central source of power is heat energy generated by a controlled chain reaction of nuclear fission, produced by either uranium or plutonium. Either of these elements when struck by a neutron will subsequently split, …

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There is enough energy in already mined uranium and stored plutonium from existing stockpiles to supply all the world’s power needs for more than three centuries before we need to mine any more uranium. Fast reactors can be used to burn …

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I hate fission nuclear energy, the kind that uses uranium and plutonium. The combination of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, terrorist potential for bombs, crisis looming on where to store these wastes (for the radioactivity can be dangerous for … …

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The soil samples the inspectors collected at their last visit to Dir a-Zur confirmed an earlier discovery of uranium used in separating out bomb-grade plutonium from spent nuclear fuel which the US believes was supplied by Iran. … His party included members of Iran’s nuclear energy commission who helped build the Syria’s North Korean reactor. Jalili and Syrian president Bashar Assad spent several hours discussing how to respond to the forthcoming American revelations. …

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As someone who spends a fair amount of time thinking about the future of the nuclear energy industry in the U.S., I’ve organized my thoughts to describe what I think are four key priorities or new year’s resolutions for 2010. In short, these are my proposals for new year’s … The U.S. MOX plant being built at Savannah River will use weapons grade plutonium as its feedstock, and cannot be considered in the near-term as a facility in this commercial spent fuel initiative. …

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A senior official in the Obama administration described the UN nuclear watchdog inspectors’ discovery of traces of highly processed plutonium at the bombed Syrian-North Korean facility at Dir a-Zur as a “smoking gun” - evidence of … His party included members of Iran’s nuclear energy commission who helped build the Syria’s North Korean reactor. Jalili and Syrian president Bashar Assad spent several hours discussing how to respond to the forthcoming American revelations. …

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The reactor also produces weapons grade plutonium as a result of the fission process, which raises proliferation concerns. For example, North Korea currently operates a small Magnox reactor it built and claims to have produced enough …

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… function process of a nuclear reactor begins inside the core of the reactor itself. The central source of power is heat energy generated by a controlled chain reaction of nuclear fission, produced by either uranium or plutonium. …

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Syria is stonewalling IAEA attempts to probe U.S. and Israeli intelligence that it had a secret nuclear reactor geared to producing plutonium. And Iran has shrugged off three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions to continue …

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On June 7, 1981, Israeli fighter-bombers destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak shortly before it was to be fueled to develop the capacity to make nuclear weapons-grade plutonium. Again, Washington was not informed in advance. …

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