A typical power reactor produces about 300 kgs of plutonium each year.
A typical power reactor (1000 MWe) produces about 300 kilograms of plutonium each year. 10 kilograms of (reactor-grade) plutonium is required to produce a weapon with a destructive power comparable to that of the plutonium weapon dropped on Nagasaki in 1945
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A typical power reactor produces about 300 kgs of plutonium each year.
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