Sentences with phrase «dismantled warheads»

It will also require Aldermaston scientists to develop innovative ways to deal with the radioactive remains of dismantled warheads.

Arms control experts estimate that dismantling the warheads will release about 100 tonnes of plutonium.

Not exact matches

The delicate, potentially deadly dismantling of nuclear warheads at Pantex, while little noticed, has grown increasingly urgent to keep the United States from exceeding a limit of 1,550 warheads permitted under a 2010 treaty with Russia.

The United States wants to dismantle older warheads so that it can substitute some of them with newer, more lethal weapons.

While Russia presses on with dismantling its nuclear warheads, the Pentagon is tying itself up in knots over how best to verify that its old rival is getting rid of as many as it says it is.

Now whenever workers at Pantex dismantle a nuclear warhead, the pit is sealed in a steel container and stacked in earthcovered bunkers on - site.

The remainder of the fuel comes from government stockpiles and dismantled Russian nuclear warheads.

The latest issue of the US Lawrence Livermore laboratory's glossy journal Energy and Technology Review is dedicated completely to the lab's work on dismantling nuclear warheads.