Similar reports last year said China had supplied equipment to assist Pakistan in producing fissionable material for its nuclear weapons program.
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The reaction was eventually contained when emergency workers managed to break a drainage pipe for the container holding the fissionable material.
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That is for sure when you are talking about fissionable materials because a lot of it is scattered in non-military facilities.
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Giving an example of new dangers, Woolsey said recently Russia arrested a power plant janitor with several kilograms of fissionable material.
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Enough fissionable material was available by 1948 to build ten projectiles and targets, although there were only enough initiators for six.
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The Russian authorities have denied that they are missing any plutonium 239, the fissionable material most often used in nuclear warheads.
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Forward suggested that coating the sail with fissionable material would provide thrust in this region, where maneuvering is no longer as important.
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Nuclear power relies on fissionable material that can sustain a heavy water or graphite as the moderator can operate using natural uranium.
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As for the nuclear inspection team, about half are experts in the production of fissionable material, and half in the weaponization process.
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The intelligence report also provides evidence that Iranians have contacted Kazakhstan and other former Soviet republics to try to obtain fissionable material.
