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- plutonium 239 that is recovered when nuclear weapons are disassembled; it is stored in plutonium pits
How To Use weapons-grade plutonium In A Sentence
- The country will start building a nuclear reactor in June that can produce weapons-grade plutonium, diplomats said Wednesday.
- The Conference on Disarmament is seeking to start formal negotiations on banning production of fissile materials such as weapons-grade plutonium and uranium.
- And they have reactivated a mothballed nuclear reactor that can produce weapons-grade plutonium.
- The documents tell me this is genuine weapons-grade plutonium and to my eyes the boxes look genuine. BLOOD IS DIRT
- Their target, later identified as a not yet operational nuclear reactor modeled on the Yongbyon reactor in North Korea—a uranium-fueled reactor that is capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium as a by-product—was destroyed. How the End Begins
- Those rods can be reprocessed into weapons-grade plutonium, enough for potentially three nuclear bombs.
- Operating from 1950 until the fire in 1957, they converted uranium to weapons-grade plutonium for nuclear bombs.
- He says the documents show where the product originated and that it's weapons-grade plutonium, and he says the containers are genuine too. BLOOD IS DIRT
- weapons-grade plutonium
- And they have reactivated a mothballed nuclear reactor that can produce weapons-grade plutonium.
