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  • Weapons-grade conspiracy theory is fun to watch first time but wears off quickly.

    Eli Concern Trolls EliRabett 2010

  • Type Composition Origin Use Reactor-grade from high-burnup fuel 55-70% Pu-239, 19% Pu-240, typically about 30% non-fissile Comprises about 1% of spent fuel from normal operation of civil nuclear reactors used for electricity generation As ingredient (c5%) of MOX fuel for normal reactor Weapons-grade Pu-239 with

    Plutonium 2009

  • Weapons-grade anthrax is a chemically altered form, which makes the disease able to survive in the air.

    Anthrax-The biggest smoking gun of all? 2008

  • Weapons-grade uranium-also known as highly-enriched uranium, or HEU-is around 90 percent (technically, HEU is any concentration over 20 percent, but weapons-grade levels are described as being in excess of 90 percent).

    Iran’s Nuclear Program 2008

  • LEMON: Weapons-grade uranium, the stuff of nuclear bombs, for sale on the black market?

    CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2007 2007

  • PHILLIPS: Weapons-grade uranium up for grabs, and the price is right -- if the price is right.

    CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2007 2007

  • (This conversion process does not create Weapons-grade plutonium) This is their right under the terms of the treaty.

    The Inevitable War with Iran 2005

  • Weapons-grade uranium is more than 80 percent pure U-235.

    Archive 2002-12-01 2002

  • Weapons-grade uranium is usually about 90 percent enriched.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ALI AKBAR DAREINI 2012

  • Weapons-grade uranium is usually about 90 percent enriched.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By ALI AKBAR DAREINI 2012

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