weapons grade plutonium

Much of this remains dangerous for thousands of years, and a proportion of it can be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium.

Staff at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee thwart the author's efforts to get his hands on some weapons-grade plutonium.

Evaporation in the cooling pools used for spent fuel rods led to the detonation of stored weapons-grade plutonium and uranium.

New Delhi is estimated to have manufactured weapons-grade plutonium for at least 100 warheads.

Earlier this month it said it had produced more weapons-grade plutonium.

In a major and welcomed development, Russia announced that it will close its last weapons-grade plutonium production reactor.

Accounting has since improved, and the country is now thought to have around 145 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium.

These actions have halted the DPRK's ability to produce additional weapons-grade plutonium for its nuclear weapons program.

The United States and Russia signed an agreement to dispose of 68 tons of weapons-grade plutonium.

Performance of near-weapons-grade plutonium fuel pins in commercial light water reactors.

Russia and America finalised a decade-old deal to eliminate 68 tonnes of weapons-grade plutonium, enough for nearly 17, 000 nuclear devices.

The ADE -2 reactor has been producing weapons- grade plutonium for nearly 52 years .

Disposal of Surplus Weapons Grade Plutonium