Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Graphite reactor is one of the oldest technology you can get It is not massive building They can be hidden anywhere. I am not sure if anybody still use it
Fast breeder is better alternative
It is also generated in "commercial" nuclear reactor. The inspection apply only to the imported design. Since China did sign the nuclear nonproliferation.But it DOES NOT apply to domestic design produced with domestic source uranium
Plutonium-239 present in reactor fuel can absorb neutrons and fission just as uranium-235 can. Since plutonium-239 is constantly being created in the reactor core during operation, the use of plutonium-239 as nuclear fuel in power plants can occur without ; the plutonium-239 is fissioned in the same fuel rods in which it is produced. Fissioning of plutonium-239 provides about one-third of the total energy produced in a typical commercial nuclear power plant. Reactor fuel would accumulate much more than 0.8% plutonium-239 during its service life if some plutonium-239 were not constantly being “burned off” by fissioning.
A small percentage of plutonium-239 can be deliberately added to fresh nuclear fuel. Such fuel is called , as it contains a mixture of uranium oxide (UO2) and plutonium oxide (PuO). The addition of plutonium-239 reduces or eliminates the need to in the fuel.
The treaty defines as those that have built and tested a nuclear explosive device before 1 January 1967; these are the , , the , , and . Four other states are known or believed to possess nuclear weapons: , , and have openly tested and declared that they possess nuclear weapons, while is regarding .
The NPT is often seen to be based on a central bargain:
the NPT non-nuclear-weapon states agree never to acquire nuclear weapons and the NPT nuclear-weapon states in exchange agree to share the benefits of peaceful nuclear technology and to pursue nuclear disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination of their nuclear arsenals.
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