plutonium in English

noun
1
the chemical element of atomic number 94, a dense silvery radioactive metal of the actinide series, used as a fuel in nuclear reactors and as an explosive in nuclear fission weapons. Plutonium only occurs in trace amounts in nature but is manufactured in nuclear reactors from uranium-238.
The only manufacturing left on the site when reprocessing goes will be the plant for making nuclear fuel from plutonium and uranium oxides.

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1. Ordinarily (in spent nuclear fuel), plutonium is reactor-grade plutonium.

2. Magnox reactors produce plutonium containing about 75 percent of plutonium 239 isotope.

3. Plutonium shows enormous, and reversible, reaction rates with pure hydrogen, forming plutonium hydride.

4. Gallium easily alloys with many metals, and is used in small quantities in the plutonium-gallium alloy in the plutonium cores of nuclear bombs to stabilize the plutonium crystal structure.

5. The longest-lived are plutonium-244, with a half-life of 80.8 million years, plutonium-242, with a half-life of 373,300 years, and plutonium-239, with a half-life of 24,110 years.

6. Down there it's all weapons-grade plutonium.

7. Plutonium–zirconium alloy can be used as nuclear fuel.

8. An Oscorp truck carrying plutonium has been hijacked.

9. Weapon-grade plutonium constitutes the primary fission material for India's nuclear weapon and it has plutonium enough to make 70 to 100 nuclear weapons.

10. Americium definition: a white metallic transuranic element artificially produced from plutonium

11. Owing to its scarcity in nature, most plutonium is produced synthetically.

12. My guess is, he's using plutonium isotopes to mutate cell structure.

13. Do you know the speed at which plutonium emits alpha particles?

14. Plutonium is a unique and inevitable by-product of nuclear fission.

15. Curium-242 (half-life 162.8 days) was produced by bombarding plutonium-239 with …

16. The warhead contains 14.5 kilograms of enriched uranium... and a plutonium trigger.

17. The Americium was produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons in a nuclear reactor

18. Plutonium mining for dubious ends was one of the plots foiled by Dan.

19. The first production reactor that made plutonium-239 was the X-10 Graphite Reactor.

20. Plutonium was the second transuranic element of the actinide series to be discovered.

21. Plutonium-238 has a half-life of 88 years and emits alpha particles.

22. Like all plutonium compounds, it is subject to control under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

23. We bombarded a mass of plutonium with titanium ions... thereby creating a new isotope.

24. Imagine what 10 of them will do, with a core of weapons-grade plutonium.

25. Metal actinide fuel is typically an alloy of zirconium, uranium, plutonium, and minor actinides.

26. Americium is produced when plutonium absorbs neutrons in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons tests

27. (g) the isotopic composition of plutonium, including its decay isotope americium-241, and reference dates.

28. Should a corporation receive less proportionate punishment for having contaminated its workers with deadly plutonium?

29. The presence of these many allotropes makes machining plutonium very difficult, as it changes state very readily.

30. Other sources of plutonium in the environment are fallout from numerous above-ground nuclear tests, now banned.

31. B Reactor produced the fissile material for the plutonium weapons used during World War II.

32. The U.S. Department of Energy plans to dispose of 34 tonnes of weapons-grade plutonium in the United States before the end of 2019 by converting the plutonium to a MOX fuel to be used in commercial nuclear power reactors.

33. Cerium is used as a chemical simulant of plutonium for development of containment, extraction, and other technologies.

34. Some 800 grams of plutonium lie in the sediments of the Mururoa lagoon, according to official estimates.

35. The ultimate task of the metallurgists was to determine how to cast plutonium into a sphere.

36. Plutonium-238 and strontium-90 are easy to manipulate because they emit only alpha or beta rays.

37. They run on plutonium- powered Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators, a standard set up for NASA deep space missions.

38. 8 Thus, any serious, nonproliferation policy aims to make it as difficult as possible to obtain plutonium.

39. Americium definition is - a radioactive metallic element produced artificially by bombarding plutonium with high-energy neutrons.

40. In nuclear reactors, neptunium dioxide can also be used as the target metal for plutonium bombardment.

41. • Plutonium is more poisonous than any other transuranium element because of its high-rate of alpha-particle emission.

42. In the absence of any indicators that Iran is currently considering reprocessing irradiated nuclear fuel to extract plutonium,

43. Near the melting point, the liquid plutonium has very high viscosity and surface tension compared to other metals.

44. In pure form, plutonium exists in six Allotropic forms or crystal structure - more than any other element

45. Americium definition, a transuranic element, one of the products of high-energy helium bombardment of uranium and plutonium

46. Americium-241, plutonium-238-239, and Curium can be chelated with pentetate calcium trisodium and pentetate zinc trisodium

47. Non-proscribed activities include separation of minor actinides from unirradiated plutonium that is not subject to the Treaty.

48. If the alloying metal is sufficiently reductive, plutonium can be added in the form of oxides or halides.

49. The overall weapon weighed over 4 tonnes, although it used just 6.2 kg of plutonium in its core.

50. Three days later, the US dropped a plutonium bomb on the port city of Nagasaki, killing about 000.