Plutonium

Plutonium

Plutonium and other nuclear material

Now, plutonium, 10 to 13 pounds this. This is enough plutonium to create a Nagasaki size atomic weapon.

This is plutonium containing less than 80 per cent plutonium 238, highly enriched uranium (HEU) and uranium 233.

Since plutonium 238, plutonium 240 and plutonium 242 are fertile, accumulation of these and other nonfissile isotopes is less of a problem than in thermal reactors, which cannot burn them efficiently.

But we launch plutonium batteries all the time.

That you'd need 10 to 13 pounds of plutonium.

Plutonium fuel production would create enormous amounts of radioactive waste and would require the transportation of weapons grade plutonium and fresh fuel across thousands of miles of open country, creating a serious risk of railway accidents that could result in plutonium contamination of the environment.

Plutonium(III) chloride is the chemical compound with the formula PuCl3.

Maybe keep a few little bombs of plutonium on the side.

Far more energy is required than a simple Delorean with plutonium.

Use of plutonium fuels also increases the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation.

Ten reactors that had produced weapons grade plutonium have been shut down.

The hard part is obtaining the fissionable materials plutonium or highly enriched uranium.

In the period from 1975 to 1992, it brought in one ton of plutonium from the United Kingdom in top secrecy and reportedly shipped in 1.5 tons of plutonium from France in 1993.

In order to produce plutonium the Israelis needed a large supply of uranium ore.

Plutonium utilization in ageing Russian reactors could lead to proliferation from civil reactor sites.

During the Cold War, the project expanded to include nine nuclear reactors and five large plutonium processing complexes, which produced plutonium for most of the more than 60,000 weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

A drawback is that gallium compounds are corrosive and so if the plutonium is recovered from dismantled weapons for conversion to plutonium dioxide for power reactors, there is the difficulty of removing the gallium.

But it was disclosed recently that the Japanese authorities had not declared an amount of plutonium sufficient for the manufacture of nine nuclear bombs in the total inventory of plutonium, keeping it in secrecy.

He said, It's easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

The Chernobyl disaster contaminated the Belarusian territory with long lived caesium, strontium and plutonium radionuclides.

Immobilization provided an alternative to plutonium fuel, which was difficult to handle, store and transport.

Experiments with plutonium based fast breeder reactors in France and Japan have been expensive failures.

Chemical compounds including such material and plutonium in spent fuel elements also belong to this category.

Nuclear non proliferation would be undermined by the circulation of plutonium fuel in the commercial sector.

The doses near the plutonium production plant at Hanford, Washington, United States, are currently being evaluated.

Japan has stockpiled 26 tons of plutonium, which far surpasses the quantity needed for peaceful purposes.

We also firmly oppose the transshipment and transboundary movement of plutonium in the South Pacific region.

More effective measures to register, manage and monitor existing stocks of plutonium should be agreed upon.

We have to know that our civilization produced the nuclear power plants, it also produces plutonium.

And in 2004, the IAEA blew the whistle on South Korea s non safeguarded plutonium and enrichment experiments.

Due to the radioactivity of plutonium, all of its compounds, PuCl3 included, are warm to the touch.

The transport accidents caused local contamination by plutonium. The collective dose committed by those accidents is small.

No excess cancers were identified in workers exposed to small amounts of plutonium or to uranium dusts.

The world is now seriously concerned about the stockpiling of a large quantity of plutonium by Japan.

A very important case is the PUREX process (plutonium uranium extraction process) which is used to separate the plutonium and the uranium from the spent fuel products from a nuclear reactor, and to be able to dispose of the waste products.

What offers a particular problem is that Japan plans to secure about 100 tons of plutonium by the year 2010, although the amount of plutonium actually needed by Japan is estimated at 85 tons (Kyodo News Service, 5 October 1992).

38. Other nuclear issues The Forum noted with appreciation the cooperation since the last Forum of Japan in responding to South Pacific Forum concerns regarding plutonium shipments, by provision of information on, and consultation about, its programme of plutonium use.

And the Soviet Union followed with a research reactor from which Libyan scientists extracted small amounts of plutonium.

This is the first time that the plutonium rich carbide fuel has been reprocessed anywhere in the world.

Specific concern was expressed about both the environmental and proliferation risks of plutonium reprocessing and nuclear materials shipments.

The energy derived from splitting uranium and plutonium atoms was originally used for the ultimate weapon, the atomic bomb.

Now you might want to look at plutonium as another fissionable material that you might use in a bomb.