Denoting fissile material which is suitable for making nuclear weapons.
（裂变材料）可造核武器的，武器级的
weapons-grade plutonium
武器级的钚。
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Graphite-moderated nuclear facilities are able to produce weapons-grade material more easily than the safer light-water reactors.
The Conference on Disarmament is seeking to start formal negotiations on banning production of fissile materials such as weapons-grade plutonium and uranium.
The country will start building a nuclear reactor in June that can produce weapons-grade plutonium, diplomats said Wednesday.
Will we be able to control whatever fuel is going into that plant, so that it does not become a source of nuclear weapons-grade material?
Those rods can be reprocessed into weapons-grade plutonium, enough for potentially three nuclear bombs.
Previously, it was believed by the International Atomic Energy Agency to hold uranium only for research purposes and no weapons-grade radioactive materials.
The re-activation of the nuclear reprocessing plant is a clear sign that the country is now on course to produce weapons-grade plutonium within a month, and five or six nuclear bombs in a year.
Work will focus on the techniques used to safely store weapons-grade material and spent radioactive fuel from nuclear reactors.
If they acquire sufficient weapons-grade fissile material from abroad, they could make a nuclear weapon within a year.
The highly toxic material can be enriched into weapons-grade material if it is fed into nuclear centrifuges.
Operating from 1950 until the fire in 1957, they converted uranium to weapons-grade plutonium for nuclear bombs.
Which is a bit like me admitting that I could make a nuclear weapon within a year if I acquired weapons-grade fissile material - that is rather the point.
Indeed, the availability of missiles has become more widespread, as has the supply of weapons-grade nuclear materials.
Included in those facilities, say analysts, is a process line for turning uranium ore into yellowcake, the first step in the process towards enriching it into weapons-grade material.
Some of the radioactivity detectors have been in use in Russia for the past few years to help prevent the theft of weapons-grade nuclear material.
First we were hearing that it was high-quality, weapons-grade material.
Denying terrorists access to nuclear weapons and weapons-grade material is thus a challenge to nations' willpower and determination, not to their technical capabilities.
Proliferation of weapons-grade material can readily be prevented if the necessary international will exists.
Depleted uranium is a by-product of the process in which uranium is enriched to become reactor fuel or weapons-grade material.
And they have reactivated a mothballed nuclear reactor that can produce weapons-grade plutonium.