The process was designed to extract plutonium from aluminium-clad uranium metal fuel.
Iraq said it was able to extract plutonium from a nuclear installation under international safeguards.
Washington has warned Pyongyang could extract enough plutonium from the spent fuel to make four or five nuclear bombs.
A1 Taiwan stopped work on a facility that could be used to extract plutonium, a main ingredient in nuclear weapons, according to Administration officials.
While working on the Manhattan Project, he devised a method of extracting and purifying plutonium.
It can extract ample plutonium and uranium from warheads scheduled for dismantling.
Originally reprocessing was used solely to extract plutonium for producing nuclear weapons.
After that they need to go through a complex process called "reprocessing" to extract weapons-grade plutonium.
It is easier to extract bomb-grade plutonium from the spent fuel of heavy-water reactors.
But how about giving Iran reactors and getting its word of honor not to extract plutonium?
