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...deal that shut down Pyongyang's known nuclear program. Even if the bad news is true, the new reactor is not expected to generate more bombmaking material for several years. But if North Korea is able to design a working bomb, analysts generally believe it stockpiled enough plutonium before 1994 to build one or two of them...
Washington delivered stern diplomatic notes last week warning both countries not to fit nuclear warheads on missiles. The Administration plans to press them to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and begin serious negotiations to halt production of the plutonium and highly enriched uranium that fuel their bombs. The U.S. also wants to try to mediate their long-running dispute over Kashmir...
...mile-deep subterranean nuclear-waste repository in New Mexico has been ready for business, but legal challenges and bureaucratic rigmarole have prevented the WIPP site (for Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) from opening. Now, with the EPA about to bestow its blessing, the DOE is gearing up to begin receiving plutonium refuse from the nation's mothballed bomb factories. With activists vowing legal action, that's no sure thing. Though officials insist that concerns about everything from fractures to flooding have been addressed, opponents still question the safety of shipping millions of pounds of radioactive waste along the interstates on flatbed...
...report said workers with the program have deactivated many nuclear armaments, stored weapons-grade uranium and plutonium out of the reach of "rogue" states, denuclearized three countries and employed many Soviet weapons scientists and engineers to discourage them from selling their expertise to terrorists or rogue states...
NASA delays the launch of the Cassini space probe, the plutonium-powered spacecraft that has been mired in controversy (TIME Daily...