Pyongyang has tested two nuclear weapons and says it has turned some of its stockpile of plutonium into bomb material. 朝鲜进行过两次核武器试验,并宣称已经把一些金属钚转为可制造核武器的材料。
Japan already has a large stock of plutonium and could probably develop a bomb within months. 日本已经拥有大量的钚并可能在数月内制造出核弹。
However, several said that the seismic data suggested the explosion was significantly smaller than would have been expected from a plutonium bomb and could have been a dud. 不过,其中多人表示,地震数据显示,此次爆炸的威力要远远小于钚弹爆炸的威力,有可能是个哑弹。
Iran is building a heavy-water nuclear research reactor at Arak, which it says is needed for the country's agricultural and medical development but which the US and Israel say could allow it to develop a plutonium nuclear bomb. 伊朗正在阿拉克修建一个重水核研究反应堆,并声称这是出于该国农业和医疗发展的需要。不过,美国和以色列认为这会让伊朗得以开发钚核弹。
This summit is all about securing stocks of fissile material, highly enriched uranium and plutonium could potentially be used by terrorists to build a nuclear bomb. 这次峰会全部是关于核燃料储备问题,高浓缩铀和钚可能被恐怖分子用来制造核弹。
Metal plutonium is an important nuclear material that used to make nuclear bomb, and the verification technologies of metal plutonium are developing and reaching maturity. 金属钚是制造核弹头的重要核材料,军控核查中对于金属钚的核查技术研究已经趋于成熟。