21.   Other countries have dropped or cut back plans for breeder reactors because of the mounting costs and hazards of using plutonium.

22.   Plans included buying reactors from Russia and building several fast-breeder reactors which use plutonium as fuel and produce more plutonium than it consumes.

23.   And he said it is a mistake to let Russia use plutonium as fuel rather than dispose of it as waste.

24.   Anti-nuclear activists Tuesday demanded Japan stop recycling spent nuclear fuel in France unless it guarantees that Japanese plutonium is not used in French nuclear arms.

25.   Despite protests from environmentalists, the Japanese government has not changed its policy to use plutonium in nuclear reactors.

26.   Fast-breeder reactors use plutonium reprocessed from spent nuclear fuel at conventional plants.

27.   Fast breeder reactors use plutonium as fuel and produce more plutonium than it consumes.

28.   India plans to build four more reactors for electricity and eventually to obtain several fast-breeder reactors which use plutonium as fuel.

29.   It is the only country in the world developing fast-breeder technology, which uses plutonium.