Sentence examples for spent plutonium from inspiring English sources

In between, they talked about the dangers of spent plutonium and uranium byproducts.

But if North Korea's claim, earlier this month, to have finished reprocessing all 8,000 of its spent plutonium fuel rods (enough for six bombs) at Yongbyon is true, then it would make sense that another facility was involved.

On the far side of the range is Nellis Air Force Base; the Nevada Test Site, where nuclear weapons were detonated during the Cold War; and Yucca Mountain, the proposed burial ground for the nation's spent plutonium.

Confronted with intelligence gathered by the United States and South Korea, North Korea admitted to American officials in October 2002 that it had an active program to enrich uranium, in addition to its much older effort to turn spent plutonium into a bomb.

Sleekly designed to look like a cross between the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and a flat-screen TV, MABZ boasts patented nonclogging vertical killing grids and uses spent plutonium and argon gas, causing bugs to glow iridescently in up to 20 colors before succumbing painfully to radiation poisoning.

On the flip side, after decades of service, adjacent facilities — some underground — hold spent fuel, plutonium and atomic waste that could add significantly to the consequences of an accurate ballistic missile strike from Iran.

It obliges Iran to: halt production of near-20% enriched uranium, which could be further enriched to weapons-grade relatively quickly; dilute half of its stockpile; commit not to commission or fuel the Arak heavy-water reactor, from where spent fuel plutonium could be extracted; and submit to daily inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEAA).

Differences between weapons-grade plutonium and plutonium from spent nuclear fuel (reactor-grade plutonium) also exist because reactor-grade plutonium contains more 240Pu and higher actinides.

Reprocessing spent fuel yields plutonium that can be fashioned into nuclear weapons.

The reactor under construction in Yongbyon could be designed to allow engineers to turn its spent fuel into plutonium, another fuel for nuclear arms.

France reprocesses its spent fuel, extracting plutonium and depleted uranium from the fuel rods, a process that leaves only a residue to be disposed of as nuclear waste.