Sentence examples for lbs of plutonium from inspiring English sources

Analysts say the reactor can produce 6kg (13 lbs) of plutonium a year - enough to make one to two nuclear bombs, the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul reports.

It is believed, however, that Pakistan has produced and stockpiled around 3,000 kilograms (6,600 lbs) of weapons grade HEU and about 200 kilograms (440 lbs) of plutonium.

After initially deciding that if Nagasaki were obscured on their arrival the crew would carry the bomb to Okinawa and dispose of it in the ocean, finally at 11.01am, a last-minute break in the clouds over Nagasaki allowed Bockscar's bombardier to visually sight the target as ordered and drop the"Fat Man" weapon, containing a core of 14.1 lbs of plutonium-239, over the city's industrial valley.

Eight months later the first batch of plutonium was produced.

The amount of plutonium in the waste tanks is uncertain.

Small bits of plutonium, however, are a more complex matter.

Russia is the world's most inviting source of plutonium.

Consider: I cannot remember the atomic number of plutonium.

The model is applied to three typical process vessels used in solvent extraction purification of plutonium – a countercurrent aqueous/organic plutonium stripping column, an oxidation column used for HAN and hydrazine destruction, and a plutonium rework tank.

A series of typical plutonium sample models, including samples of plutonium metal and samples of plutonium oxide with different isotopic abundance and in different mass, have been designed.

The equilibrium is studied by considering the flows of plutonium.