Plutonium traced in British soil
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Traces of plutonium from nuclear tests in Nevada 50 years ago can be traced in British soil, scientists are to reveal.
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North Korea has said it has turned plutonium from 8,000 spent fuel rods into nuclear weapons. Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su-hon said the weapons were needed for &quot;self-defence&quot; against &quot;US nuclear threat&quot;.
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Working under tight security from helicopters and police, port crews unloaded US military plutonium from a British ship on Wednesday after its arrival in northwest France, nuclear industry officials said.
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Britain has amassed a stockpile of more than 100 metric tons of plutonium -- enough for 17,000 bombs of the size that flattened Japan's Nagasaki in 1945, a report from the country's top science institution said on Friday.
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The results of one of the stranger environmental surveys to be conducted in Britain are in -- and there's a surprise.
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Doubts about how much plutonium and uranium is contained in a vast waste tank at Sellafield in Cumbria has led the European commission to prosecute the British government for failing to adhere to proper nuclear safeguards.
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The UK has a 100-tonne plutonium stockpile - enough to make 17,000 bombs, the Royal Society says.
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Police had found radioactive traces at two more locations following the death of a Russian ex-spy as British authorities sought to quell fears among the public, after a handful of people were sent for tests.
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By JOHN ARNOLD Journal Staff Writer  LOS ALAMOS -- Environmental managers at Los Alamos National Laboratory can only guess at what's buried in Material Disposal Area B, one of the lab's oldest radioactive landfills.
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The world's favourite poison The agitation surrounding possible polonium-210 contamination following the apparent assassination of Alexander Litvinenko has spread to the skies. British Airways staff and customers are being contacted after traces of radioactive polonium-210 were found on three of its jets.â¦
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German police have uncovered a radioactive trail linked to what prosecutors believe could be a possible suspect in the murder of a former Russian spy in London last month.
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Authorities are investigating how three workers were exposed to radioactive plutonium during environmental restoration work at the Nevada Test Site, the National Nuclear Security Administration 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.
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A shipment of 140 kg (308 lb) of US weapons-grade plutonium has arrived in the French port of Cherbourg, despite protests by anti-nuclear campaigners who fear it is vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
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Britain has stockpiled enough plutonium to replicate the nuclear bomb attacks on Japan in 1945 thousands of times over, the country&#39;s top science academy said Friday.
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Home Secretary John Reid has said that traces of radioactivity had been found at &quot;around 12&quot; locations in the investigation into former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko's mysterious death.
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SEOUL A week after admitting that government scientists enriched tiny amounts of uranium four years ago, the South Korean government revealed on Thursday that scientists in 1982 conducted an experiment in plutonium extraction at a state-run research