Sentence examples for kg of plutonium from inspiring English sources

The plutonium-based warheads need between 6 and 8 kg of plutonium.

A Fat Man core required about 6.2 kg of plutonium, of which 21% fissioned.

A nuclear reactor to produce 1 kg of plutonium per day would have to be built in Canada.

Thus only 6.2 kg of plutonium was needed for an explosive yield equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT.

The overall weapon weighed over 4 tonnes, although it used just 6.2 kg of plutonium in its core.

The Fat Man weapon, containing a core of about 6.4 kg of plutonium, was dropped over the city's industrial valley at.

The 5-megawatt reactor is capable of producing about 6 kg (13 pounds) of plutonium per year.

Today, it was announced that Japan will hand over 700 pounds (about 317 kg) of weapon-grade plutonium and another pile of highly enriched uranium to the US.

An implosion fission weapon with an explosive yield of one kiloton can be constructed with as little as 1 to 2 kg (2.2 to 4.4 pounds) of plutonium or with about 5 to 10 kg (11 to 22 pounds) of highly enriched uranium.

Refinements in design eventually resulted in a solid 6-kg (13-pound) sphere of plutonium, with a small hole in the centre for the neutron initiator, that would be compressed by imploding lenses of high explosive.

One assessment calculated that some 28 to 50 kg (62 to 110 pounds) of plutonium were produced for weapon use.