1.   A second will mix the plutonium oxide with oxides of uranium and turn that into ceramic form, the common form for commercial reactor fuel.

2.   Or the converted plutonium oxide could be mixed with natural uranium oxide and used as nuclear reactor fuel.

3.   The device washes chloride salts off plutonium oxides.

4.   The government notes that it has shipped plutonium oxide before, but not in the quantities that will be coming from Rocky Flats.

5.   The powdered material, called plutonium oxide, could disperse through the air if a canister leaked, some experts said.

6.   The fuel is a mixture of plutonium oxide and uranium oxide.

7.   In January last year, Japan came under strong international criticism when it brought back plutonium oxide from France as feed material at Monju.