The fuel rods in the reactor contains enough plutonium for four or five nuclear bombs, the Pentagon said.
The fuel rods contain enough plutonium for four or five nuclear bombs, according to Pentagon estimates.
The spent fuel rods contained enough plutonium for 10 nuclear warheads, officials said.
Spent nuclear fuel from normal light water reactors contains plutonium, but it is a mixture of plutonium-242, 240, 239 and 238.
The fuel being discharged contained enough plutonium for five to six additional weapons.
The priceless stones turn out to contain enough synthetic plutonium to blow up the world.
But the spent fuel also contains plutonium, which, when separated, can be fabricated into bombs.
The rods contain plutonium that can be used in nuclear weapons.
Tests showed that our drinking water contained too much plutonium - the stuff of nuclear power plants and bombs.
It also contains enough U-235 and plutonium to be interesting to terrorists who might like to build their own bombs.