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31. We have large quantities of plutonium already separated and in forms ideally suited for nuclear weapons.

32. Magnox reactors produce plutonium containing about 75 percent of plutonium 239 isotope.

33. Reprocessing is a highly technically demanding and extremely expensive operation, involving the extraction of uranium and plutonium from the spent fuel.

34. Should a corporation receive less proportionate punishment for having contaminated its workers with deadly plutonium?

35. The waves breaking on the shore release plutonium, creating a radioactive mist which is then inhaled.

36. Plutonium mining for dubious ends was one of the plots foiled by Dan.

37. There was also a debate about what would happen to the most dangerous substances in the Windscale cocktail, particularly plutonium.

38. Nigel Armstrong, Leeds, Yorkshire I keep reading that plutonium is the most toxic substance in the world.

39. But the world has a surplus of plutonium, even without extra supplies coming from disarmament.

40. Plutonium is not found naturally on earth, but it is produced whenever uranium is used in a nuclear reactor.

41. One such scheme would mix the plutonium with nasty but useless nuclear waste and seal it in blocks of glass.

42. The only sure way to reduce the danger is to reduce the world's store of uranium and plutonium.

43. Under nuclear proliferation safeguards, plutonium shipments have to be accompanied by armed vessels.

44. Such a piece of plutonium can maintain high temperatures without any external power supply, controls, or monitoring for many years.

45. Given the possession of plutonium, nuclear weapons are easy to make.

46. They had received little training on the job, and had not been plainly told that plutonium caused cancer.

47. As well as generating electricity,(sentencedict.com) Magnox reactors are particularly efficient at producing plutonium.

48. Britain's stock of plutonium from the civil power programme is estimated to be enough to build 14000 missile warheads.

49. But that, of course, would greatly increase the amount of plutonium to be dealt with.

50. Scientists say they've used a harmless form of plutonium, but it means regular checks on the volunteers.

51. More than half of this plutonium is sitting in used fuel-rods from commercial reactors, unusable for anything until it is reprocessed.

52. We can understand plutonium and work out how to treat people who have it in them.

53. A leak of plutonium could mean evacuating a large area.

54. Some 800 grams of plutonium lie in the sediments of the Mururoa lagoon, according to official estimates.

55. It also has become clear that the two sides differ profoundly on what to do with separated plutonium.

56. Could Anacreon supply us with adequate quantities of plutonium for our atomic-power plant?

57. If you have to pay to reprocess the plutonium from spent fuel, though, it does not.

58. This is the first time that plutonium, the most toxic substance in the world, has been discovered in scrap metal.

59. But stocks of civil plutonium are flowing forth from reprocessing plants ordered during the 1970s.

60. This was a crude nuclear reactor whose job was simply to produce plutonium for the manufacture of atomic bombs.