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Definition of weapons-grade in English: weapons-gradeadjective Denoting fissile material which is suitable for making nuclear weapons. Example sentencesExamples - Graphite-moderated nuclear facilities are able to produce weapons-grade material more easily than the safer light-water reactors.
- The Conference on Disarmament is seeking to start formal negotiations on banning production of fissile materials such as weapons-grade plutonium and uranium.
- The country will start building a nuclear reactor in June that can produce weapons-grade plutonium, diplomats said Wednesday.
- Will we be able to control whatever fuel is going into that plant, so that it does not become a source of nuclear weapons-grade material?
- Those rods can be reprocessed into weapons-grade plutonium, enough for potentially three nuclear bombs.
- Previously, it was believed by the International Atomic Energy Agency to hold uranium only for research purposes and no weapons-grade radioactive materials.
- The re-activation of the nuclear reprocessing plant is a clear sign that the country is now on course to produce weapons-grade plutonium within a month, and five or six nuclear bombs in a year.
- Work will focus on the techniques used to safely store weapons-grade material and spent radioactive fuel from nuclear reactors.
- If they acquire sufficient weapons-grade fissile material from abroad, they could make a nuclear weapon within a year.
- The highly toxic material can be enriched into weapons-grade material if it is fed into nuclear centrifuges.
- Operating from 1950 until the fire in 1957, they converted uranium to weapons-grade plutonium for nuclear bombs.
- Which is a bit like me admitting that I could make a nuclear weapon within a year if I acquired weapons-grade fissile material - that is rather the point.
- Indeed, the availability of missiles has become more widespread, as has the supply of weapons-grade nuclear materials.
- Included in those facilities, say analysts, is a process line for turning uranium ore into yellowcake, the first step in the process towards enriching it into weapons-grade material.
- Some of the radioactivity detectors have been in use in Russia for the past few years to help prevent the theft of weapons-grade nuclear material.
- First we were hearing that it was high-quality, weapons-grade material.
- Denying terrorists access to nuclear weapons and weapons-grade material is thus a challenge to nations' willpower and determination, not to their technical capabilities.
- Proliferation of weapons-grade material can readily be prevented if the necessary international will exists.
- Depleted uranium is a by-product of the process in which uranium is enriched to become reactor fuel or weapons-grade material.
- And they have reactivated a mothballed nuclear reactor that can produce weapons-grade plutonium.
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