plutonium

Converse of object

• reprocess: Japan's domestic atomic power program is based on reprocessed plutonium.
• extract: President Gerald Ford in the 1970s even offered to sell him equipment which would allow Iran to extract plutonium from reactor fuel.
• produce: Tons of plutonium produced by civilian nuclear plants also are circulating around the world.

Preposition: for

bomb: North Korea is also restarting its reactor, allowing it to produce plutonium for several more bombs within a year.

Adjective modifier

• separated: More than 50 tons of separated plutonium is still in storage at Sellafield.
• excess: Power stations using modern 'fast ' nuclear reactors could use up all the worlds excess military plutonium.
• Russian: Approximately 36 tons of Russian plutonium is scheduled for disposal in FY2003.
• enough: Once enough plutonium has been produced, Iran could build nuclear weapons in a short time.
• civil: An additional four tons of civil plutonium will be added to the military stockpile.

Modifies a noun

• shipment: Finally, we are also calling for the end of plutonium shipments from Japan.
• stockpile: It is now being used for " an experiment " to burn-up a small part of France's plutonium stockpile.
• nitrate: The present average of two or three shipments a year, each of 500 liters of plutonium nitrate, will double from 1994.
• disposition: The US Congress has appropriated more than $ 200 million for cooperation with Russia's plutonium disposition program.
• reactor: The first British plutonium reactor went critical in October 1950.
• oxide: The shock wave from the explosion would compress the plutonium oxide sufficiently to produce some energy from nuclear fission.

Noun used with modifier

• weapons-grade: The United States plans to use two technologies to dispose of surplus weapons-grade plutonium.
• reactor-grade: Inhalation of 2 to 4 mg of reactor-grade plutonium may cause death within about a month from pulmonary fibrosis or pulmonary edema.
• surplus: Over the life of the program, the US will dispose of enough surplus plutonium for thousands of nuclear weapons.
• weapon: A heavy water plant could support a reactor for producing weapons grade plutonium.
• grade: A heavy water plant could support a reactor for producing weapons grade plutonium.