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Technique Disables Plutonium's Use in Bombs

March 11, 2009 -- Israeli scientists have devised a technique to keep plutonium produced in nuclear power plants from being used in nuclear bombs.

Adding the element Americium, a synthetic compound used in commercial smoke detectors and industrial gauges, to nuclear power plant fuel generates higher-than-normal concentrations of a particular type of plutonium, rendering it useless for armaments without additional processing.

"If you make a bomb with a lot of Plutonium-238, you'd melt down the structure of the bomb. You can't create it," Yigal Ronen, a professor of nuclear engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, told Discovery News.

The technique could make it easier for the United States, Russia, Germany, France and Japan to assist countries such as Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Oman and Malaysia -- among others -- that are seeking to develop nuclear power plants.