Nuclear weapons, too, can be produced using either uranium enriched to weapons-grade or plutonium.
While it talks about international control of plutonium neither are accurate descriptions of its terms.
The same is true of reprocessing: you can get plutonium out of used fuel.
On Tuesday, in fact, plutonium was detected in the soil around the Fukushima power plant.
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Clinton said the Obama administration is placing a priority on ending Pyongyang's production of plutonium.
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It provided a means of converting uranium to plutonium for the generation of electricity.
The Hanford facility processed plutonium for nuclear weapons during World War II and the Cold War.
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Normal fission involves breaking uranium or plutonium atoms up by hitting them with neutrons.
Cesium remains the most widely dispersed isotope while concerns remain over long-term contamination from strontium and plutonium.
It will take approximately 15 years for the MOX facility to process the 34 MT of plutonium.
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That, say some, would be even more perilous than adding more plutonium to Russia's existing gigantic stockpile.
Some are getting rid of their stocks of highly enriched uranium or plutonium, both used in bombs.
It has a lot of information that needs to be given about all its plutonium production and extraction.
With regard to the latter, the bill actually would encumber highly enriched uranium production as well as plutonium.
It is building a facility in South Carolina to transform excess weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear reactors.
So they can actually produce about six kilograms or slightly more than six kilograms per year of plutonium.
And the fast-breeder type of nuclear reactor in which plutonium was used as fuel is no longer economic.
According to what President Bush says, it deals with all the plutonium activities, papers going back to 1986.
In a major and welcomed development, Russia announced that it will close its last weapons-grade plutonium production reactor.
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Nuclear fission, generally fuelled by uranium or plutonium, heats up water which evaporates.
Plutonium production no longer is occurring and the reprocessing is no longer occurring.
The craft is equipped with a plutonium power generator to run its instruments.
Currently, Esa uses an isotope called plutonium-238 for these batteries, but this is only available from Russia and America.
Chemists at Britain's National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) plan to make the batteries using Sellafield's large store of waste plutonium.
They and others have wanted America to focus on North Korea's known plutonium-making.
In one significant respect U-233 is better than uranium-235 and plutonium-239, because of its higher neutron yield per neutron absorbed.
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Mox offers a solution to the problem: by blending the plutonium into a new fuel, the stockpiles can be reduced.
The plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th 1945, three days after a uranium bomb had destroyed Hiroshima.
He worked out, among other things, how to separate plutonium from uranium in a reactor after it had been synthesised.
In all, the plutonium-powered, six-wheeled Curiosity carries 10 scientific instruments, including an analytical laboratory, to process mineral and sediment samples.
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