Kyrgyzstan 'foils plutonium plot'
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Kyrgyzstan says it has arrested two men who were trying to sell  plutonium on the black market.
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Taiwan appears to have conducted experiments with plutonium &#151; a key component of nuclear weapons &#151; up to the mid-1980s, diplomats said Wednesday, citing environmental tests taken by the U.N. atomic watchdog agency.
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Pyongyang will not meet target for disabling key reactor and revealing nuclear programmes, diplomats say
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North Korea says it has turned the plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent a nuclear war in northeast Asia.
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U.N. experts have found traces of plutonium near an Egyptian nuclear facility and are investigating whether it could be weapons-related or simply a byproduct of the country's peaceful atomic activities, diplomats told The Associated Press on Friday.
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UNITED NATIONS - North Korea says it has turned the plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent a nuclear war in northeast Asia...
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A former Russian nuclear physicist turned over 14 ounces of plutonium he found in a dump and then kept in his garage, a news agency said Tuesday. Now he finds himself facing possible criminal charges.
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Some questions and answers about Pyongyang's nuclear weapon capabilities.
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KIEV -- A government investigation into illicit weapons sales by officials loyal to former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma has led to indictments or arrests of at least six arms dealers accused of selling nuclear-capable missiles to Iran and China, a high-ranking intelligence official said yesterday.
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A plot by Colombian left-wing rebels to kidnap President Uribe's sons has been foiled, Colombian police say.
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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 quoted an unidentified North Korean diplomatic source as saying on Monday.
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About 13 pounds of highly enriched uranium was returned to Russia from a research facility in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, the Energy Department announced. The transfer was part of an international program to better secure material that terrorists could use in a nuclear weapon.
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South Korean nuclear experiments revealed earlier this year produced minute amounts of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium, but there was no evidence linking them to an attempt to make weapons, the U.N. atomic watchdog agency said Thursday.
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PODOLSK, Russia, Aug. 29 -- Heavily guarded trucks rolled up to the Luch nuclear institute here on Tuesday night and unloaded five green reinforced containers holding a total of 21 pounds of uranium, about a third of it highly enriched, which had been quietly removed from a research reactor in...
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Georgian customs officers sent a car carrying a mixture of plutonium and beryllium back to Azerbaijan after foiling an attempt to smuggle the materials over the border, Georgian television reported yesterday.
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SEOUL  - South Korean officials on Tuesday dismissed as propaganda a top North Korean official&#39;s claims that Pyongyang had made nuclear weapons from spent plutonium fuel rods, news reports said.
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Washington, Oct. 14 (CNA) Recent reports that Taiwan conducted plutonium separation experiments refer to events 20 or 30 years ago, a spokesman for the US State Department said Thursday.