Meanings of produce plutonium in English

It is used in certain reactors that produce plutonium as a by-product.

Heavy water can be employed in reactors to produce plutonium, a fuel used in nuclear warheads.

And thorium, unfortunately, does not produce plutonium and is useless as far as proliferation is concerned.

These were not built to generate electricity, but to produce plutonium for the nation's independent nuclear deterrent.

That was because the heavy water reactor in Arak, in western Iran would be able to produce plutonium.

Iran also agreed to modify a heavy water facility so it could not produce plutonium suitable for a bomb.

North Korea says it will re-start all its nuclear facilities including an atomic reactor at Yongbyon, which could produce plutonium for atomic bombs.

In the 1940s the U.S. government built Hanford and other complexes to produce plutonium and uranium for atomic bombs under the Manhattan Project.

It must also remove the core of a heavy water reactor at Arak so it cannot be used to produce plutonium, another potential bomb-making source.

North Korea has produced plutonium, which can be used to make atomic bombs, at Yongbyon.

The United Nations has said Iran has admitted to misleading the UN over its experiments with producing plutonium.

The foreign powers that signed the pact said the plant could eventually have produced plutonium, which can also be used in atom bombs.

Following Clement Attlee's decision to launch a programme to build a British atomic bomb, the British began producing plutonium at Windscale in Cumbria.

The North's statement rejects a call from the UN to readmit inspectors who had been monitoring a reactor capable of producing plutonium for weapons.