plutonium• But stocks of civilplutonium are flowing forth from reprocessingplants ordered during the 1970s.• There is the question: why was civil plutoniumexported, in the first place, under a defenceagreement?• Given the possession of plutonium, nuclear weapons are easy to make.• As little as 55 pounds of highly enricheduranium or 18 pounds of plutonium could be used to build a nuclear device.• We have large quantities of plutonium already separated and in forms ideally suited for nuclear weapons.• But the world has a surplus of plutonium, even without extrasupplies coming from disarmament.• It also has become clear that the two sides differ profoundly on what to do with separated plutonium.• We can understandplutonium and work out how to treat people who have it in them.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + PLUTONIUM | PLUTONIUM + NOUNADJECTIVE➤radioactive放射性鈈➤weapons-grade武器級鈈VERB + PLUTONIUM➤extract, produce, recover提取鈈;生產鈈;回收鈈◇one ton of plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel從廢核燃料中提取的一噸鈈➤reprocess再處理鈈◇the capability to enrich uranium or reprocess plutonium濃縮鈾或再處理鈈的能力PLUTONIUM + NOUN➤fuel鈈燃料➤production鈈的生產➤bomb鈈彈◇the plane that dropped a plutonium bomb on the city of Nagasaki在長崎市扔下一顆鈈彈的那架飛機