Since it would be of a quite different design to the production reactors, the X-10 Graphite Reactor lost its value as a prototype; but it was considered more important to get the pilot facility up and running as soon as possible in order to supply quantities of plutonium needed for research.
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In the U . S ., however, the first experimental atomic reactor ( 1942 ), as well as the Manhattan Project Hanford production reactors that produced the plutonium for the Trinity test and Fat Man bombs, all used pure carbon ( graphite ) neutron moderators combined with normal water cooling pipes.
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According to the DIA study, Iraq also has plans to construct or rebuild a uranium conversion plant; a uranium enrichment facility; a plutonium production reactor; a spent-fuel reprocessing facility to recover plutonium; a weapons fabrication facility; a high explosives test facility; and an underground " hardened " nuclear weapon storage facility.
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The "'Mayak Production Association "'( Russian : @ > 872 > 4AB25 = = > 5 > 1J548 = 5 = 85 ?0O : ? from 0O : 'lighthouse') is one of the biggest nuclear facilities in the Russian Federation, housing plutonium production reactors and a reprocessing plant.
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Additionally, a few grams of tritium ( a by-product of plutonium production reactors and thermonuclear fuel ) can increase the overall yield of the bombs by a factor of three to four . " The sixth Pakistan nuclear test, codename Chagai-II, ( 30 May 1998 ) at Kharan Desert was a successful test of a sophisticated, compact, but powerful bomb designed to be carried by missiles.
