Ten reactors that had produced weapons grade plutonium have been shut down.

Plutonium produced at the remaining three reactors which generate heat and electricity has not been used for nuclear weapons since 1994.

About 121 incidents were reported to the Agency in 2004, some of which involved weapons usable highly enriched uranium or plutonium being smuggled across national borders.

Now, plutonium, 10 to 13 pounds this. This is enough plutonium to create a Nagasaki size atomic weapon.

That you'd need 10 to 13 pounds of plutonium.

Pyongyang violated its obligations under the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty by secretly reprocessing enough plutonium to produce two nuclear weapons in the early 1990 s. After it withdrew from a restraining agreement negotiated by the Clinton administration in 1994, it expelled International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors and began reprocessing spent fuel that could produce another six bombs worth of plutonium.

The scope of the treaty should provide for a ban on future production of weapons grade uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons purposes a ban on assistance in or encouragement of production of these materials by other States prohibition of the transfer of fissile material from the civilian to the military cycle for nuclear weapons purposes.

Maybe keep a few little bombs of plutonium on the side.

The nuclear materials in question are plutonium, uranium, thorium, deuterium, tritium and lithium 6.

Every technically competent person knows that the paths to civilian nuclear power and to nuclear weapons are the same, except for a few last, comparatively simple steps. The hard part is obtaining the fissionable materials plutonium or highly enriched uranium.

For its part, after announcing the cessation of the production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons, France decided in February 1996 to close and dismantle its facilities for the production of such materials at Pierrelatte and Marcoule.

He said, It's easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

The Chernobyl disaster contaminated the Belarusian territory with long lived caesium, strontium and plutonium radionuclides.

(iv) Commit themselves to expediting agreement on alternatives, consistent with the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons principles of the right to peaceful uses and the obligations for non proliferation, to the acquisition of domestic uranium enrichment and plutonium separation facilities

We therefore believe that in order to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons it is crucial to strengthen the supervisory competencies of the IAEA and to control more effectively the stages in the nuclear fuel cycle that involve uranium enrichment and plutonium processing.

Chemical compounds including such material and plutonium in spent fuel elements also belong to this category.

After consultation with his staff, Bush responded that, absent a plutonium extraction facility, US intelligence could not confirm that the plant comprised a nuclear weapons program. I told him Olmert I had decided on a diplomatic option backed by force to stop Syria, Bush writes.

This includes, in accordance with the IAEA definition, nuclear material that can be used for the manufacture of nuclear explosive devices without further adaptation or additional enrichment. This is plutonium containing less than 80 per cent plutonium 238, highly enriched uranium (HEU) and uranium 233.

This is the first time that the plutonium rich carbide fuel has been reprocessed anywhere in the world.

Specific concern was expressed about both the environmental and proliferation risks of plutonium reprocessing and nuclear materials shipments.

12. Supports continued efforts by the United States of America and the Russian Federation to implement the 1997 Agreement concerning Cooperation regarding Plutonium Production Reactors and the 2000 Agreement concerning the Management and Disposition of Plutonium Designated as No Longer Required for Defence Purposes and Related Cooperation

Now you might want to look at plutonium as another fissionable material that you might use in a bomb.

Promote timely agreements to prevent the spread of uranium enrichment and plutonium separation technologies and facilities that respect fully the right to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, as set out in the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, including alternatives such as the provision of guaranteed nuclear fuel supplies

An RTG is a device without moving parts that converts the heat from the decay of the radioisotope Plutonium 238 (Pu 238) into electricity.

In addition, a number of countries with nuclear energy programs have the capability, if they choose, to manufacture nuclear weapons within a matter of months if their security perceptions change, because they have mastered the critical technology uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing. If more countries take this path, it could prove to be the Achilles heel of non proliferation.

Six cases mark the most egregious cheating. Twice, Iraq bucked safeguards first when it built the Osirak reactor and failed to provide inspectors full transparency and convincing assurance it would not use the plant to produce plutonium for weapons, and, second, when it nearly completed its secret enrichment program prior to the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

Promote timely agreement to prevent the spread of uranium enrichment and plutonium separation technologies and facilities and seek alternatives that respect fully the right to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy as set out in the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, such as the provision of guaranteed nuclear fuel supplies and other incentives

Third, the States parties should improve control over proliferation of sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle, specifically, activities involving uranium enrichment and plutonium separation.

Ban should support the creation of an international facility that would provide governments access to (but not physical control of) enriched uranium and plutonium for the generation of electrical power. Such an innovation would help stem the spread of nuclear materials and weapons, while also contributing to a shift away from use of oil and gas, thereby reducing global warming in the process.

There are many, many sites where warheads are stored and, in fact, lots of sites where fissionable materials, like highly enriched uranium and plutonium, are absolutely not safe.

Proposals have been mooted to impose a moratorium on uranium enrichment and plutonium separation, to multilateralize the nuclear fuel cycle or to banish the building of new national fuel cycle facilities.

From 1993 through 2006, the International Atomic Energy Agency documented 175 cases of nuclear theft, 18 of which involved highly enriched uranium or plutonium, the key ingredients to make a nuclear weapon.

Bhutan neither produces nor exports any weapons or weapons technology.

Bhutan neither produces nor exports any weapons or weapons technology

A chemical weapons ban should not be hostage to nuclear weapons.

Space weapons, can in fact, support the use of weapons on earth.

Nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction should be completely eliminated.

Biological Weapons

Chemical Weapons

Meanwhile, with the cooperation of Japan, for the first time, 20 kilograms of weapon grade plutonium, equivalent to two to three nuclear warheads, was successfully disposed of with the aid of advanced technology developed by Russian scientists.

With regard to weapons export, Tunisia does not manufacture weapons and so does not export them, nor does it import weapons for export.

He further warned against the placement of non offensive weapons around satellites or non debris producing weapons as these weapons themselves could be targeted by parties using low cost, low technology weapons that create fields of debris and destroying the other more technologically advanced weapons.

States that possess such weapons especially nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction can no longer continue to pretend that their weapons pose no threat or a lesser threat to the global community.

Heavy weapons cantonment registers a total of 10,888 heavy weapons cantoned so far.

For a number of years, I have advocated the consideration of multilateral approaches to the nuclear fuel cycle, so as to address challenges posed by proliferation sensitive operations such as those related to uranium enrichment and plutonium separation.