1.   Some existing plants could be modified to take plutonium, mixed with uranium.

2.   The Energy Department would take plutonium recycled from disassembled warheads in the form of plutonium oxide powder to Hanford, where it would be pressed into reactor fuel pellets.

3.   Among them is a formal commitment to take the plutonium back if the MOX conversion plant falls behind schedule or runs into funding trouble.

4.   Greenpeace said the plutonium was being taken by a commercial truck through Tokyo on Thursday for use in an experimental fast-breeder reactor in western Japan.

5.   Western intelligence agencies suspect that enough plutonium could be taken from the fuel rods to produce four or five nuclear weapons.

6.   Recycling brings savings on natural uranium because it takes plutonium that has already been irradiated and, by mixing it with uranium oxyde, turns it into another fuel.