Kyrgyzstan Seizes Nuclear Bomb-Grade Plutonium
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Security forces in the ex-Soviet state  of Kyrgyzstan have detained a man who tried to sell nuclear  bomb-grade plutonium on the black market, a senior security  official said on Wednesday.
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Scientists isolate plutonium for the first time. Next up, the atomic bomb. Compiled by Tony Long.
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CAIRO -- Jalila finally tracked down the terrorists who stole plutonium from the nuclear power plant where she worked. They had set up a camp right outside her native City of All Faiths and were clearly up to no good.
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North Korea has enough plutonium to build an estimated four to eight crude nuclear warheads that could potentially be mounted on medium-range missiles, a Washington-based think tank said.
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Kyrgyzstan's national security service  has detained a man who tried to sell weapons-grade  plutonium-239, a senior security official said on Wednesday.
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Despite progress on security, tons of nuclear material are &quot;dangerously vulnerable&quot; to theft by terrorists across the globe, a private group contends.
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South Korea carried out an experiment using plutonium in the early 1980s and the UN nuclear watchdog is investigating, South Korea&#39;s Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday, quoting a Foreign Ministry official.
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A shipment of weapons-grade plutonium has left the United States for a nuclear reactor in France, drawing protests from activists who believe the shipment poses both an environmental and terrorist threat.
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North Korea has reportedly said it plans to extract more plutonium for use in nuclear weapons.
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A British newspaper said on Sunday Israeli commandos seized North Korean nuclear material in Syria to help secure U.S. approval for an Israeli air strike that destroyed a suspect weapons plant on September 6.
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North Korea says it has turned plutonium from 8,000 spent fuel rods into nuclear weapons.
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A supervisor of the South Korean nuclear experiment in 2000 said Sunday the enrichment level of the questioned uranium amounts to just 10 percent, far below than the bomb-grade level of 90 percent.
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North Korea plans to seal its nuclear reactor, the source of weapons-grade plutonium, in the second half of July, Russia's Interfax news agency reported on Monday, citing an unidentified North Korean diplomatic source.
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North Korea has made significant progress in disabling its nuclear facility in Yongbyon but has hesitated at providing key details about the extent of its nuclear programs, including whether it has weaponized the plutonium harvested from the reactor, according to U.S. officials.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Satellite images show that Pakistan is building a nuclear reactor that can produce weapons-grade plutonium, an American watchdog group said yesterday, warning that it could contribute to an atomic arms race with archrival India.
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CHERBOURG, France, Oct 6  - Police threw a heavy escort around a shipment of plutonium from US weapons arsenals as it was offloaded from a ship and taken by military convoy to a nuclear recycling plant in western France on Wednesday despite protests
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Kyrgyzstan says it has arrested two men who were trying to sell  plutonium on the black market.