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When reluctant CIA agent Stone Waverly is assigned to seek the weapons-grade plutonium stolen from a Ukrainian nuclear plant, his search takes him from Odessa to Cologne to Amsterdam to Damascus.
Ascent from Darkness by Small Press Bookwatch
But their bomb housings would surely corrode and disintegrate within a few thousand years, exposing ten to twenty pounds of weapons-grade plutonium, with a half-life of 24,110 years, per ICBM.
The World Without Us by Krause, Kenneth W. / The Humanist
But the plutonium route is also much easier to disrupt, because weapons-grade plutonium can be extracted only from the spent fuel of a nuclear reactor; the system is vulnerable at that point in the production chain.
Can their program be destroyed? The military options against the ... by Loyola, Mario / National Review
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