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To: Ditto
The USA has now resumed producing plutonium once again in limited amounts;

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200506/s1401643.htm
38 posted on 07/21/2005 1:32:17 PM PDT by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
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To: Our_Man_In_Gough_Island

The citation is about the production of Pu-238, which is not used in nuclear weapons. It will be used as a power source.


45 posted on 07/21/2005 1:43:18 PM PDT by bagman (We're all Britons now!)
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To: Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
The officials did not disclose details, but the newspaper says in the past, the plutonium powered espionage devices.

With the added feature that if someone tried to tamper with them, they went boom??? :-)

51 posted on 07/21/2005 1:56:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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