The move threatened operations at several plants, particularly the Rocky Flats Plant near Denver, which processes plutonium into triggers for nuclear warheads.

It has also proposed building a high-technology laser plant at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, near Idaho Falls, Idaho, to process plutonium for atomic weapons.

There is nothing secret anymore about how to process uranium or plutonium to the purity needed for bomb-making, nor is it all that hard to acquire the raw ingredients.

A1 Possible violations of Federal law at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado, which processes plutonium for nuclear warheads, is to be investigated by the Justice Department.

They want to allow supercomputer exports to Algeria, a terrorist-plagued state that is planning to process plutonium.

October North Korea says it has processed sufficient plutonium to produce five or six more warheads to add to the one or two it is already believed to possess.

North Korea has since continued to process plutonium, which puts our Asian allies in a difficult place.

But it took three years of posturing, in which North Korea probably processed enough plutonium to make several bombs, before the Bush administration took real action.

Begins to process plutonium into weapon-ready form.

The Justice Department today announced a broad criminal investigation into possible violations of Federal environmental laws at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado, which processes plutonium for nuclear warheads.