1.   Japan intends to obtain plutonium for its breeder reactors by reprocessing the waste from its conventional reactors.

2.   North Korea claims its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, but Western experts think the North might have obtained enough plutonium to make at least one bomb.

3.   Nuclear watchers have said that North Korea could obtain enough plutonium to make three to four atomic bombs if it reprocesses.

4.   Opponents fear that if left in the civilian nuclear program, plutonium might be obtained more readily by terrorists or rogue states for bomb making.

5.   U.S. officials believe that the hard-line North already may have obtained enough plutonium to make at least one bomb.

6.   U.S. officials believe the North may already have obtained enough plutonium to make at least one bomb.

7.   It quoted Russian experts as saying the plutonium had been obtained by the supergenerator at Beloyarsk, in the Urals.