21.   Japan sends its spent nuclear fuel to France and Britain, where plutonium is extracted for use in its breeder reactor program.

22.   North Korea claims that its nuclear program is peaceful but Western experts think the reclusive country already has extracted enough plutonium to make at least one atomic bomb.

23.   North Korea is believed to have extracted enough plutonium from its old-fashioned nuclear reactor to make at least one atomic bomb.

24.   North Korea is suspected of having extracted enough plutonium to make as many as two nuclear bombs.

25.   North Korea says its nuclear program is peaceful but experts believe the communist state may have extracted enough plutonium from its reactors to make at least two atomic bombs.

26.   The aim of the talks was to keep the Communist state from reprocessing the spent fuel to extract plutonium, which can be used to make atomic bombs.

27.   The CIA suspects that North Korea may have extracted enough plutonium to make one or two atomic bombs before freezing the facilities.

28.   The Chinese plant, the first of several planned, will extract plutonium from the spent fuel of nuclear power plants, the official said.

29.   The CIA suspects that North Korea may have extracted enough plutonium to make one or two atomic bombs before the freeze.

30.   The light-water reactor would replace graphite reactors, from which it is much easier to extract plutonium for nuclear weapons production.