QUOTES WITH «WEAPONS-GRADE»
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weapons-grade.
After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials. So disarmament and nuclear energy actually are strongly linked.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEAPONS-GRADE»
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Weapons Grade: How Modern Warfare Gave Birth to Our ...
David Hambling traces the history of this relationship in the modern era and shows how precision eye surgery emerged out of the military quest for a 'death ray, ' how transistors and silicon chips first helped build better bombs, and ...
"Highly poised, grand and intensely lyrical, the poems veer from the political to the personal, then finish on the elegiac, releasing complex and unexpected meaning with emotional precision"--P. [2] of cover.
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Nuclear Reactor Physics
The composition of typical weapons-grade uranium and plutonium is compared
with the composition of reactor-grade uranium and plutonium in Table 6.10.
Reactor-grade here refers to the typical enriched uranium used in LWRs and the
...
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Nonproliferation Issues For
Weapons of Mass Destruction
1.2.3 Isotopic Considerations in Weapons-Grade Plutonium Weapons-grade
plutonium primarily consists of the Pu239 isotope. Plutonium is produced from
the neutron capture of uranium in a nuclear reactor. In addition to Pu239, several
other ...
Mark A. Prelas, Michael Peck, 2005
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The Home Team:
Weapons Grade
The third instalment of the HOME TEAM series, a combination of Vince Flynn and Richard Marcinko.
Dennis Chalker, Kevin Dockery, 2009
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Jihadists and
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Weapons-Grade Uranium and Plutonium Metallic forms of uranium or plutonium
would be the most ideal structure of fissionable materials for jihadists seeking to
construct an IND. "Weapons-grade" material consists of either metallic uranium ...
Gary Ackerman, Jeremy Tamsett, 2009
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Nuclear Shadowboxing: Legacies and Challenges
The terms HEU (for highly-enriched uranium) and weapons-grade uranium have
precise and distinct definitions. Weapons-grade uranium is enriched to 90
percent or greater in the U-235 isotope. By convention, HEU spans the range of ...
A. DeVolpi, V.E. Minkov, G.S. Stanford, and V.A. Simonenko, Vladimir Minkov, Vadim Simonenko, 2005
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Weapons Proliferation in the 1990s
United States: 550 tons HEU in total stockpile, 285 tons of which are in weapons;
89 tons of weapons-grade Pu, 127.3 tons of Pu in spent fuel Russia: 720 tons of
HEU in total stockpile, 480 tons in actual weapons (assuming 32,000 warheads,
...
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Management and Disposition of Excess
Weapons Plutonium:: ...
Chief among these are the problems of coping with extra heat from the
radioactive decay of the shorter-lived isotopes of plutonium that are more
abundant in reactor-grade than in weapons-grade plutonium, and the problems
of gamma ...
Panel on Reactor-Related Options for the Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium, National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, 1995
Each also tends to be secured no better than, and in many cases less carefully
than, pure weapons-grade uranium metal. Both these attributes increase the
chances that an opportunistic terrorist group will acquire such materials. The
simplest ...
Levi, Michael A Levi, 2009
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WEAPONS-GRADE»
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weapons-grade is used in the context of the following news items.
GAO: Y-12 could run out of weapons-grade lithium by 2018
OAK RIDGE — Y-12 could run out of purified lithium for refurbishing nuclear weapons as early as 2018, according to a Government Accountability Office report ... «Knoxville News Sentinel, Jul 15»
Stanford: A new nuke: A weapons-grade bad idea
Perhaps the most dangerous problem posed by Republican control of Congress is more Texans are put in charge of things that we'd be better off having ... «Pekin Daily Times, Jun 15»
Final shipment of weapons-grade uranium due at Ontario facility this …
OTTAWA—The United States has approved what is expected to be the last shipment of weapons-grade uranium to be sent to Canada for the production of ... «Toronto Star, Jun 15»
Navy should develop new ship and sub reactors that don't use …
The task force said the threat of the theft or diversion of weapons-grade uranium intended for naval use is real, citing five separate reported thefts or diversions of ... «Center for Public Integrity, Mar 15»
Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh brings "weapons-grade …
When Jim Harbaugh was a freshman quarterback at Michigan, he showed up a few minutes late for his first team meeting – a definite no-no. Bo Schembechler ... «Michigan Radio, Mar 15»
Israel Should Pay for Weapons-Grade Uranium Smuggling Site …
The 147-page complaint (PDF) filed in DC's U.S. District Court contains exhibits about how U.S. weapons-grade uranium was illegally diverted from the ... «PR Newswire, Feb 15»
New York City pharmacist who tried to make ricin, weapons-grade …
TRENTON, N.J. – A New York City pharmacist who admitted to trying to make weapons-grade ricin and other legal toxins has been sentenced to 6 ½ years in ... «Fox News, Jan 15»
Guys and Dolls review – serious star power and weapons-grade …
... in the Godfather movies. The showtunes are weapons-grade: especially Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat, which never fails to get any audience on its feet. «The Guardian, Dec 14»
North Korea may be restarting fuel reprocessing plant to make …
WASHINGTON – For the first time in nearly six years North Korea may be restarting a plant that can reprocess nuclear fuel into weapons-grade plutonium, a U.S. ... «The Japan Times, Nov 14»
Tennis Writer Neil Harman Is Guilty Of Weapons-Grade Plagiarism
Earlier today, we told you about tennis writer Neil Harman admitting that at least some portion of the official Wimbledon yearbook he publishes every year was ... «Deadspin, Jul 14»
