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.

51. The Actinides are most known for the elements uranium and plutonium which are used in nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs

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

53. Its most important isotope is Americium-241 (half-life 432.7 years), which is produced by the beta-decay of plutonium-241

54. When a large fissile atomic nucleus such as uranium-235 or plutonium-239 absorbs a neutron, it may undergo nuclear fission.

55. A bomb whose explosive force comes from a chain reaction based on nuclear fission in U-235 or plutonium

56. Plutonium also exhibits valence states between 3 and 7 inclusive, and thus is chemically similar to neptunium and uranium.

57. Any uranium or plutonium isotopes produced during those three years are left and the rod goes back into production.

58. Since no plutonium, higher actinides or fission products are present in the reconstituted fuel elements, the present processes can be used repeatedly.

59. Three days later, the US dropped a plutonium bomb on the port city of Nagasaki, killing about 000. Japan surrendered on Aug.

60. Basic data reflecting the behaviour of fission products and actinides (uranium, plutonium and americium) in molten salts and metals was derived.

61. Large stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium were built up by both the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War.

62. Such a piece of plutonium can maintain high temperatures without any external power supply, controls, or monitoring for many years.

63. 24 More than half of this plutonium is sitting in used fuel-rods from commercial reactors, unusable for anything until it is reprocessed.

64. The first atomic bomb test, codenamed "Trinity" and detonated on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, used plutonium as its fissile material.

65. Actinides are radioactive elements, typically with long half-lives, and include the major actinides uranium and plutonium as well as minor actinides.

66. GNEP is aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of advanced fuel cycle technologies including recycling that do not involve separating plutonium

67. GNEP is aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of advanced fuel cycle technologies including recycling that do not involve separating plutonium.

68. Curium definition, a radioactive element not found in nature but discovered in 1944 among the products of plutonium after bombardment by high-energy helium ions

69. Disposal of plutonium waste from nuclear power plants and dismantled nuclear weapons built during the Cold War is a nuclear-proliferation and environmental concern.

70. They include calorimetry examination for the assay of plutonium oxide and contribute to both process development and improved safeguarding of advanced fuel cycles.

71. “So far, a total of 100,000 kilograms of plutonium, in an unprocessed state, has been accumulated from civilian nuclear reactors,” SIPRI points out.

72. The scientists at the Berkeley conference envisioned breeding plutonium in nuclear reactors from uranium-238 atoms that absorbed neutrons from fissioning uranium-235 atoms.

73. In spite of this, whenever this material is used in power reactors, it is possible to accumulate the plutonium, enough, in time, to build an atomic bomb.

74. Gamma radiation of modest energies, in the low tens of MeV, can induce fission in traditionally fissile elements such as the actinides uranium, plutonium, and neptunium.

75. Analysts say that would allow the reclusive Communist state to extract plutonium from the reactor's fuel rods - giving it additional fuel with which to build nuclear weapons.

76. Curium is a member of a group of elements, the transuranic elements, that - with the exception of plutonium and neptunium - do not occur naturally on Earth

77. Great strides have recently been made in the study of actinide atoms (extremely heavy radioactive elements such as uranium and plutonium) using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).

78. The presence of up to 1% gallium per mass in weapons-grade plutonium alloy has the potential to interfere with long-term operation of a light water reactor.

79. The Actinides is the collective name given to elements 90-103 in the periodic table, comprising thorium, protactinium, uranium, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and lawrencium

80. India, of course, has a third stage where our vast resources of thorium could be used together with plutonium generated by FBR, to allow a very large expansion in capacity.