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caf 4 days ago

Fifteen nations that currently do so, if anyone is interested: Russia, United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, China, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Iran, Israel, and North Korea.

N19PEDL2 4 days ago | parent [-]

Some of those countries don't have nuclear weapons. What do they produce plutonium for?

caf 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

They don't all produce separated plutonium, this also includes those that produce enriched uranium, which is also fissile.

The three reasons to produce fissile material are weapons, non-explosive military uses and civilian power reactors. Even many of the weapons states aren't producing new fissile material for weapons these days, they have more than enough.

saagarjha 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Reactors?