Traduction de «Plutonium militaire » (Français → Anglais) :

In view of the very high strategic value of this material, which can be used as the basis for a nuclear bomb, and in order to provide all the necessary guarantees for the people of Europe, the Commission decided to keep inspectors on site throughout the recycling of the American military plutonium into nuclear fuel for civil use.

In this context the JRC is involved in the current fuel development strategy aimed at improving safety and reducing civil and military stockpiles of plutonium.

Then it was surprised that the DPRK did exactly what it said it was going to do and threatened to open its Russian-designed Yongbyong nuclear reactor which like all such reactors is capable of producing weapons grade plutonium.

Both of them are effective ways of reducing, of concentrating waste and in the case of MOX manufacture are the best answer known presently to the issue of safe disposal of weapons grade plutonium.

Recently the US Congress voted a $5m budget to develop such a technology which could be efficiently used for the elimination of military plutonium and called for extensive industrial cooperation.

In the light of the UK government’s approval on 3 October 2001 of a new plutonium fuel facility at the Sellafield nuclear complex, will the Council state its position on this proposal, particularly with regard to the security aspects, given that there are worrying reports that such a facility will increase the global trade in plutonium, that such trade will increase the threat to global security, that transportation of 'weapons usable' material makes it vulnerable to terrorists and that the atrocity of 11 September raises the risk that Sellafield could be targeted by terrorists, with catastrophic results for the populations of the UK, Ir ...[+++]eland and globally.