Given that North Korea has the ability to produce plutonium weapons, why pursue uranium enrichment? What is the advantage? Seems to me that plutonium can be produced in a breeder reactor and more easily processed than the enrichment & separation procedures for uranium. Doesn't plutonium provide for a more compact and deliverable device than uranium?

You still need to enrich the nuclear material to produce a viable weapon and uranium is a lot easier, comparatively, to deal with.


Doesn't plutonium provide for a more compact and deliverable device than uranium?
Basically, no.

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