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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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make
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One such project was to have focused on reducing the toxic waste produced when making the plutonium core of nuclear missiles.
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But that makes plutonium , the ideal material for small nuclear weapons.
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It would, however, make the reactor breed plutonium less efficiently.
produce
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This was a crude nuclear reactor whose job was simply to produce plutonium for the manufacture of atomic bombs.
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Magnox reactors produce plutonium containing about 75 percent of plutonium 239 isotope.
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Britain's civil nuclear power stations also produce plutonium .
use
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But the fact remains that the safeguards themselves do not prevent the government using civil plutonium for defence purposes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As little as 55 pounds of highly enriched uranium or 18 pounds of plutonium could be used to build a nuclear device.
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But stocks of civil plutonium are flowing forth from reprocessing plants ordered during the 1970s.
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But the world has a surplus of plutonium , even without extra supplies coming from disarmament.
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Given the possession of plutonium , nuclear weapons are easy to make.
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It also has become clear that the two sides differ profoundly on what to do with separated plutonium .
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There is the question: why was civil plutonium exported, in the first place, under a defence agreement?
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We can understand plutonium and work out how to treat people who have it in them.
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We have large quantities of plutonium already separated and in forms ideally suited for nuclear weapons.