The benevolent factory was actually a secret plutonium plant run by the Government.

My thesis is on contamination problems at the plutonium plants.

The first plutonium plant, Reactor A, was built in less than 18 months with prison labor and military and civilian workers.

Earlier this year, the Bush Administration canceled a $1.2 billion project to build a new plutonium plant in Idaho to save money.

There was something different about the townspeople, even those employed at the plutonium plant.

"So if you hit the plutonium plant, they would just speed up on the uranium program."

Construction of the plutonium plant began at Trombay on 27 March 1961 and was commissioned in mid-1964.

The secret plutonium plant was known as Purnima and construction took place in March 1969.

A new $86 million plutonium plant is being tested at Savannah River and is scheduled to be put into operation this summer.

In two to three weeks, a second facility, a plutonium finishing plant, will begin resuming operations.