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China’s plutonium isotope breakthrough could help nuclear stability goal
“The newly discovered plutonium-227 is still seven neutrons away from the magic number of 126. To study the robustness of the ...
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Plutonium-238 Production for Space Exploration
Beginning in the late 1950s, the U.S. met this challenge by developing nuclear batteries known as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and producing plutonium-238 (Pu-238) as their fuel, ...
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Four takeaways from the Los Alamos National Laboratory 'State of the Lab'
It was designed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. A sphere shell of plutonium the size of a bowling ball, a plutonium pit is a key part of a nuclear warhead, according to ...
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Homegrown scientist faces 10 years' mail for importing plutonium
They confiscated plutonium and depleted uranium in decorative vials and polymer cubes that Lidden kept by his bedside after buying from a US science collectables website to complete a real-life ...
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There is no stockpile of plutonium, enriched uranium in Ukraine, watchdog claims
Previously, IAEA Director General claimed that some 30 tonnes of plutonium and 40 tonnes of enriched uranium are stored at Zaporozhye nuclear power plant KIEV, May 27. /TASS/. The State Nuclear ...