These were bombarded with neutrons which converted the uranium to plutonium. |
Operating from 1950 until the fire in 1957, they converted uranium to weapons-grade plutonium for nuclear bombs. |
And they have reactivated a mothballed nuclear reactor that can produce weapons-grade plutonium. |
Those rods can be reprocessed into weapons-grade plutonium, enough for potentially three nuclear bombs. |
The country will start building a nuclear reactor in June that can produce weapons-grade plutonium, diplomats said Wednesday. |
This plutonium is a reject load being returned to British Nuclear Fuels by Japan. |