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The state approved nearly $100,000 last week to conduct a feasibility study for potentially locating a micro nuclear reactor in Southwest Virginia, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Friday.

Weapons-grade plutonium, on the other hand, is created by irradiating uranium in a nuclear reactor and then chemically separating the plutonium produced from the spent fuel.

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The Europeans also insisted that Iran refrain from reprocessing spent reactor fuel to extract plutonium, the alternative source of fissile material for a bomb.

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America's largest airport by size is reportedly considering plans to build a nuclear reactor on its sprawling 33,500-acre property.

Ward Zero is a non-nuclear prototype reactor. So, essentially, we build a nuclear reactor. But instead of putting nuclear fuel in it, we put heaters in it….

In the 1950s, French engineers helped Israel build a nuclear reactor and a secret reprocessing plant to separate plutonium from spent reactor fuel.

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