1. Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium.

2. Plutonium is a fuel used to produce nuclear energy.

3. Plutonium is very dense.

4. Plutonium 238 is one of the most toxic substances known to man.

5. At the nuclear reprocessing plant they extract plutonium from spent atomic fuel rods.

6. Fast-breeder reactors require large quantities of plutonium.

7. Liquid plutonium is squirted in, waste is siphoned off.

8. Britain's civil nuclear power stations also produce plutonium.

9. Plutonium is graded by its isotopic composition.

10. There are few peaceful uses for plutonium.

11. If only it were as simple for military plutonium.

12. They've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people.

13. It takes less than a pound of plutonium to irradiate every human being in the world!

14. There is the question: why was civil plutonium exported, in the first place, under a defence agreement?

15. Radium is tens of times more hazardous than plutonium and thousands of times more hazardous than tritium.

16. The residual plutonium is apparently being held in the form of highly radioactive waste.

17. It would, however, make the reactor breed plutonium less efficiently.

17.

18. In 1981 violent storms redistributed some of the plutonium, along with other radioactive wastes stored ashore.

19. It's not the same plutonium as used in weapons and the nuclear industry.

20. The plutonium path Plutonium is a by-product of the controlled fission reaction in a nuclear reactor.

21. That amount of plutonium was enough to build a couple of bombs like the ones we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

22. Now, and for the foreseeable future, the world is awash in plutonium.

23. The nitric acid solution is then mixed with an organic solvent and the uranium and plutonium are separated from the waste products.

24. Thus, any serious, nonproliferation policy aims to make it as difficult as possible to obtain plutonium.

25. As little as 55 pounds of highly enriched uranium or 18 pounds of plutonium could be used to build a nuclear device.

26. That would leave the bulk of the bag free for the plutonium 239 and the firing mechanism John had described.

27. Most of the rest would help pay for disposing of the plutonium by generating electricity from it while turning it into waste.

28. But the fact remains that the safeguards themselves do not prevent the government using civil plutonium for defence purposes.

29. Now disarmament and reprocessing are bringing about what fast reactors never did: surplus plutonium.

30. One such project was to have focused on reducing the toxic waste produced when making the plutonium core of nuclear missiles.

1. Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium.

31. We have large quantities of plutonium already separated and in forms ideally suited for nuclear weapons.

32. Magnox reactors produce plutonium containing about 75 percent of plutonium 239 isotope.

33. Reprocessing is a highly technically demanding and extremely expensive operation, involving the extraction of uranium and plutonium from the spent fuel.

34. Should a corporation receive less proportionate punishment for having contaminated its workers with deadly plutonium?

35. The waves breaking on the shore release plutonium, creating a radioactive mist which is then inhaled.

36. Plutonium mining for dubious ends was one of the plots foiled by Dan.

37. There was also a debate about what would happen to the most dangerous substances in the Windscale cocktail, particularly plutonium.

38. Nigel Armstrong, Leeds, Yorkshire I keep reading that plutonium is the most toxic substance in the world.

39. But the world has a surplus of plutonium, even without extra supplies coming from disarmament.

40. Plutonium is not found naturally on earth, but it is produced whenever uranium is used in a nuclear reactor.

41. One such scheme would mix the plutonium with nasty but useless nuclear waste and seal it in blocks of glass.

42. The only sure way to reduce the danger is to reduce the world's store of uranium and plutonium.

43. Under nuclear proliferation safeguards, plutonium shipments have to be accompanied by armed vessels.

44. Such a piece of plutonium can maintain high temperatures without any external power supply, controls, or monitoring for many years.

45. Given the possession of plutonium, nuclear weapons are easy to make.

46. They had received little training on the job, and had not been plainly told that plutonium caused cancer.

47. As well as generating electricity,() Magnox reactors are particularly efficient at producing plutonium.

48. Britain's stock of plutonium from the civil power programme is estimated to be enough to build 14000 missile warheads.

49. But that, of course, would greatly increase the amount of plutonium to be dealt with.

50. Scientists say they've used a harmless form of plutonium, but it means regular checks on the volunteers.

51. More than half of this plutonium is sitting in used fuel-rods from commercial reactors, unusable for anything until it is reprocessed.

52. We can understand plutonium and work out how to treat people who have it in them.

53. A leak of plutonium could mean evacuating a large area.

54. Some 800 grams of plutonium lie in the sediments of the Mururoa lagoon, according to official estimates.

55. It also has become clear that the two sides differ profoundly on what to do with separated plutonium.

56. Could Anacreon supply us with adequate quantities of plutonium for our atomic-power plant?

57. If you have to pay to reprocess the plutonium from spent fuel, though, it does not.

58. This is the first time that plutonium, the most toxic substance in the world, has been discovered in scrap metal.

59. But stocks of civil plutonium are flowing forth from reprocessing plants ordered during the 1970s.

60. This was a crude nuclear reactor whose job was simply to produce plutonium for the manufacture of atomic bombs.

61. But that makes plutonium, the ideal material for small nuclear weapons.

62. Plutonium is a unique and inevitable by-product of nuclear fission.

63. This was supposed to account for the value of their contribution towards the stockpiling of plutonium as fuel for future reactors.

64. But to pass, the end result should be less, not more total plutonium.

65. Controlled potential callomesric assay of plutonium?

66. The facility will produce plutonium once it is completed.

67. A large number of plutonium are handled in Sailafeierde.

68. Kim's stockpiles of plutonium probably aren't going anywhere either.

69. DO YOU KNOW WE THE SEPARATED PLUTONIUM IS?

70. Plutonium weapons have several ways of misfiring.

71. The study on structure of critically safe multistage mixer-settler for the extraction process of high enriched uranium and plutonium has been completed.

72. In the reactor, some of the uranium 238 absorbs a neutron and becomes plutonium 239(), which is also chain-reacting and can in principle be partially "burned" if it is extracted and properly prepared.

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

74. Huge stocks of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium, the fissile material of nuclear weapons, lie around the world, all too often in deplorably insecure conditions.

75. The idea is that it produces more plutonium than the plant needs to run, providing fissionable material usable elsewhere in the nation's nuclear program.

76. If you wanna just take a quick look at a breeder reactor, we have either mixed oxide or plutonium oxide. There's a blanket region in which you can make plutonium using uranium 238.

77. However, he pointed out, the enriched uranium from the Natanz facility and the plutonium produced at the Arak heavy-water facility would be suitable to build nuclear weapons.sentence dictionary

78. They planed plan to use the plutonium as fuel fuel for civilian nuclear reactors.

79. North Korea protested the resolution by saying it would enrich uranium and weaponize plutonium, according to KCNA, the state-run North Korean news agency.

80. Only two, neptunium (93) and plutonium (94), occur in nature, and only as traces in uranium ores as a result of neutron irradiation.

81. Last year, North Korea began to dismantle that complex, where it runs a nuclear reactor and reprocess fuel rods to recover plutonium, but it vowed in June to restart production there.

82. The principle, method and equipment of the catalyzed electrolytic plutonium oxide dissolution(CEPOD) are described.

83. Three days later, the US dropped a plutonium bomb on the port city of Nagasaki, killing about 80,000.

84. Weapon-grade plutonium constitutes the primary fission material for India's nuclear weapon and it has plutonium enough to make 70 to 100 nuclear weapons.

85. In October, North Korea exploded its first nuclear device , made using plutonium.

86. Two old plutonium disposal plants damaged at once by some unestablished reason.

87. I'm not gonna talk too much about the but in the fertile to fissile chain if you look uranium 238 it captures the neutron, 239 by beta decay 239 goes to neptunium, neptunium to plutonium 239.

88. Processing of spent fuel with high burn-up should take special measure in order to avoid heavy radiolytic degradation of the solvent and the criticality of plutonium.

89. North Korea has turned over to Washington about 18,000 pages of records on its nuclear activities, including those concerning the North's reprocessing of weapons-grade plutonium.

90. Gunner talked like a peacenik but Trout knew "Plutonium Jack" would never hesitate to pull the nuclear trigger if he had to.

91. In a fission reaction, the light particle (the free neutron) collides with the heavy particle (the uranium or plutonium isotope) which splits into two or three pieces.

92. S. in the 1970s can recycle only the plutonium in spent fuel, plutonium is just one of a dozen or so long-lived actinides.

93. In its declaration, North Korea will state how much plutonium it possesses.

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

95. A first step would be an agreement on a phase-out and then elimination of highly-enriched uranium (HEU) and plutonium (Pu) (primary materials for a nuclear device) from the civilian sector.

96. The benchmark problem for GT-MHR plutonium burner accidents is a part of the IAEA Coordinated Research Program(CRP) on "heat transport and afterheat removal for GCR under accident conditions".

97. The United States and Russia signed an agreement to dispose of sixty-eight tons of weapons-grade plutonium. They plan to use the plutonium as fuel for civilian nuclear reactors.

98. Dealing with the phase-out of plutonium might be more difficult, as it remains part of some countries' fuel cycles and power generation.

99. Plutonium radiates dangerous emissions.

100. The probability to produce the weapon-grade plutonium clandestinely in some countries were discussed, some possible ways to detect the clandestine production activities have been given.

101. Analysts say that would allow the reclusive Communist state to extract plutonium from the reactor's fuel rods - giving it additional fuel with which to build nuclear weapons.

102. The plutonium also could be used, however, to make nuclear weapons.

103. There has been a parallel argument about the lax stock-taking procedures for plutonium.

104. It is possible to use a plutonium foil as a filter to remove the second - order contamination.

105. The documents date back to 1986 and outline operations at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, where North Korea produced weapons-grade plutonium that was used in an October 2006 nuclear detonation.

106. Those who possess source of plutonium shall register it at the AEC.

107. Unlike them ,(http:///plutonium.html) it declines to end the production of fissile material — uranium and plutonium — for bombs.

108. The Jiuquan reactor could have facilitated about 0.9 tonness of weapon-grade plutonium.

109. Engineers said that plutonium could begin seeping from the corroded sub.

110. New types of reactors were designed, including the Fast Breeder reactor powered by plutonium and cooled by liquid sodium.

111. Three days later, the US dropped a plutonium bomb on the port city of Nagasaki, killing about 80,000. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15.

112. When plutonium decays, it emits what is known as an alpha particle, a relatively big particle that carries a lot of energy.

113. Indirect ionization by neutrons can also result from fission of plutonium or uranium isotopes.

114. South Korea admitted experimenting with traces of plutonium , in 1982 , and with uranium enrichment, in 2000.

115. But roughly 5 percent of reactor waste is highly radioactive fission products, including plutonium and other actinides.

116. Dmytro Melnychuk, rector of the national university, said: "Strontium-90, plutonium, and americium-241 are all extremely susceptible to upward atmospheric migration and dispersal via heat from fires.

117. Only this time, a Plutonium bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" was dropped on the city.

118. Before it can be used in weaponry, the plutonium must first be separated from the fuel rods at a highly guarded nuclear facility near Rawalpindi, about 100 miles northeast of Khushab.

119. He was quoted as saying that his nation would "weaponize" its existing plutonium stockpiles and begin a program to enrich uranium, which can also be used to make atomic warheads.

120. The uranium that gets from inside recycle and plutonium are usable will make new nuclear fuel.

121. First, a specially shaped charge of chemical explosives surrounding a plutonium pit goes off.

122. It threatens to rebuild Yongbyon and start making weapons - grade plutonium again.

123. The escape of neutrons occurs at the exterior of the uranium ( or plutonium ) material.