Plutonium
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Japan has an enormous stockpile of separated
plutonium
and the technical wherewithal to be a “virtual nuclear power”: without having any nuclear weapons on hand, it could quickly develop them if necessary.
More example sentences with word plutonium
But we launch
plutonium
batteries all the time.
Everybody was really excited about Curiosity, and that had this big
plutonium
battery on board that has plutonium-238, which actually has a higher specific activity than the low-enriched uranium fuel of these molten salt reactors, which means that the effects would be negligible, because you launch it cold, and when it gets into space is where you actually activate this reactor.
Maybe keep a few little bombs of
plutonium
on the side.
What we find is the only way we know how to get rid large numbers of nuclear weapons is by using the
plutonium
in the warheads as fuel in our nuclear power plants.
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