Sentence examples for necessary plutonium from inspiring English sources
Mr. Wahlquist said that his agency would use NASA funds to buy the necessary plutonium from Russia.
While it was built at Los Alamos, New Mexico, Wheeler supervised the creation of reactors in Hanford, Washington, which produced the necessary plutonium.
If that's true, the North now has the plutonium necessary to manufacture — for sale, or for use — half a dozen atomic bombs in the coming months.
The length was necessary for the plutonium "bullet" to pick up adequate speed before reaching the "target".
Seventy years later, hundreds of millions of dollars and great technical ability are still necessary to make plutonium-239 or to enrich uranium until it's weapons-grade (about ninety per cent uranium-235).
By the millennium's end not a single fast-breeder was in commercial operation (the necessary experimental forerunners produce plutonium in quantities useful for bomb-making).
His was a particularly tricky project that physicist Richard Feynman called "tickling the tail of the sleeping dragon" -- attempting to determine how much uranium or plutonium was necessary to start a spontaneous chain reaction without blowing themselves up in the process.
Originally, Japan, like other countries, considered the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel necessary to obtain start-up plutonium for a new generation of plutonium "breeder" reactors that would use uranium more efficiently.
This was a far broader effort to persuade African, Latin American, Asian and European nations to agree on steps to deny terrorist groups the two materials necessary to make a bomb: plutonium and highly enriched uranium.
Special precautions are necessary to store or handle plutonium in any form; generally a dry inert gas atmosphere is required.
The RaLa Experiment, or RaLa, was a series of tests during and after the Manhattan Project designed to study the behavior of converging shock waves to achieve the spherical implosion necessary for compression of the plutonium pit of the nuclear weapon.
