"This should in no way be seen as a decision not to build the new production reactor," he said.

Not since 1944 has the nation gone so long without being able to operate its weapon production reactors.

Pakistan in recent years also has been building two new plutonium production reactors, it said.

A vexing question at the time was how a production reactor should be cooled.

The need for a new nuclear weapon plant results from the aging of the department's three existing production reactors.

Mr. Watkins also said that only one new production reactor would be built.

Russia announced at the summit that it will shut down its last plutonium production reactor.

The safety of the production reactors has been an issue for years, but became more intense after the Chernobyl accident.

The Department of Energy's existing production reactors do not.

With the shutdown of the last production reactor in 1987, the area transitioned to environmental cleanup and technology.

Work continued toward closing the three remaining weapons-grade plutonium production reactors.

Russia has also shut down its last remaining weapon-grade plutonium production reactor.

These cells could now be used as the key step in a bio-based succinate production reactor.

Other uses of the material include down-blended fuel for commercial, research or medical isotope production reactors.

Increasingly, these codes are being called upon for use on small cores such as research and isotope production reactors.

According to the Energy Department and its supporters in Congress, the need for new production reactors is urgent.

We're still going to need production reactors."

It is not a plutonium production reactor.

Last week Russia agreed to shut down plutonium production reactors lest the material be stolen and sold abroad.

All of these reactors use highly enriched uranium, unlike Canada's production reactors.

The plutonium production reactor at Guangyuan, China's largest, is also in the quake zone.

The ultimate source for additional plutonium is probably a new production reactor, but the Federal Government has shown no great haste to build one.

The facility would process fuel for nuclear weapons production reactors, providing thousands of jobs in the new and exciting field of atomic energy.

Peak production years were reached in the 1960s when 9 production reactors were in operation at the Site.

For example, FGPu is often produced in tritium production reactors.