If a state has the ability to do that (enrich uranium or plutonium), that means that it is only a few months from producing nuclear weapons.
Quotes about plutonium (15 Quotes)
The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man.
By taking all the equipment from the spent fuel and the reprocessing plant it would enable them, if they restart the program, to make plutonium in a few months, and that's a pretty disturbing trend, ... American Morning.
There is no way this exercise makes us feel safer or happier about weapons of mass destruction travelling on our roads. However much you practice for eventualities the brute fact remains that transporting plutonium alongside high explosive is simply madness. This government is determined to take any risks to maintain its genocidal nuclear weapons.
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
What is pretty clear is that we will be faced with the specter of another nuclear power which can use their weapons to threaten South Korea, to threaten Japan . . . with every prospect that they will sell some of that plutonium and nuclear bombs to the highest bidder so they might end up in American cities as well.
My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.
Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.
Inhaling uranium or plutonium is very dangerous and these kinds of radiation only hurt you when they're inside the body they don't hurt you when they're outside.
Every day that goes on, the amount of plutonium theoretically can increase, so that's our concern. That means that we have a bigger problem than when we ended on Sept. 19. And I think the time to stop reprocessing, the time to stop that reactor, is now.
This policy represents a major modification of the ambitious Bush axis doctrine. From being implacably opposed two years ago to any form of concession or reward to a recidivist violator of agreements, the US is now prepared to contemplate compensation and diplomatic recognition. North Korea is even free to reprocess further plutonium at its Yongbyon facilities, at least until the next six-party talks in November.
If the five or six bombs' worth of plutonium they are sitting on ends up going into nuclear weapons, then I think we are really reaching a watershed moment where the U.S., its troops in the region and its allies are threatened by a nuclear North Korea, with, I think, very significant regional and global consequences.
It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.
Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.