Plutonium is a radioactive actinide and the element used in modern nuclear weapons. Plutonium-238 is an alpha emitter with a 87 year half-life, making it an excellent choice for radioisotope thermoelectric generators, the nuclear power plants that power long distance spacecraft. Almost all plutonium is manufactured synthetically by bombarding uranium-238 with neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
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Plutonium News 2011-08-08 - (nat) - Plutonium plans in limbo
2011-07-26 - (wir) - Plutonium is hot suspect in Pioneer spacecraft mystery
2011-07-24 - (pon) - Plutonium-removing drug developed in Japan
2011-07-21 - (bw) - Plutonium parkway
2011-07-08 - (anl) - Plutonium tricks cells by "pretending" to be iron
2011-07-07 - (ag) - Despite fire threat to Los Alamos lab, plans proceed for plutonium bomb factory
2011-07-05 - (et) - Meet NASA’s next Mars rover: Curiosity. It has a plutonium-powered laser.
2011-07-02 - (opn) - Next plutonium space launch set
2011-07-02 - (to) - We must stop the building of a plutonium bomb factory in fire country
2011-07-01 - (gfr) - Los Alamos Study Group files appeal in fight over proposed plutonium plant at national lab
2011-06-30 - (pb) - New Mexico fire threatens plutonium stored at Los Alamos lab
2011-06-29 - (tr) - Former Los Alamos lab worker's sentence upheld for theft of plutonium-contaminated gold
2011-06-29 - (av) - Los Alamos fire just gets worse; weapon grade plutonium on site
2011-06-29 - (mdn) - U.S. defends plutonium tests in response to protests from Hiroshima
2011-06-28 - (exa) - Fire at Los Alamos nuclear facility plutonium site: No-fly. Evacs.
2011-06-28 - (fdl) - Fire near to Los Alamos plutonium processing facility
2011-06-27 - (rsc) - Mystery of how plutonium enters cells solved
2011-06-27 - (ari) - N. Korea's HEU stocks may exceed its plutonium stockpile in 3 years
2011-06-26 - (sa) - Fukushima absorbed: How plutonium poisons the body
2011-06-23 - (tao) - House committee cuts funding for plutonium lab
2011-06-22 - (gsn) - Panel curbs plutonium lab construction funds
2011-06-20 - (abq) - House calls for Los Alamos plutonium lab slowdown
2010-11-20 - (wp) - North Korea building new nuclear reactor, experts say
2010-11-18 - (sta) - On the successful completion of the U.S.-Kazakhstan BN-350 Nuclear Spent Fuel Program
2010-11-18 - (abq) - Los Alamos plutonium costs rise
2010-11-12 - (ac) - MOX inspections find three minor violations
2010-11-10 - (fi) - Why India needs to opt in for nuclear submarines?
2010-11-08 - (ns) - Nuclear bomb debris holds clues to who planted it 2010-11-07 - (gua) - Nuclear smuggling: The expert view
2010-11-01 - (ns) - AREVA to train SRS MOX Fuel Facility operations staff in France
2010-10-30 - (tec) - Holdren dishes out energy advice
2010-10-30 - (tnt) - New central Hanford cleanup deadlines set
2010-10-29 - (lat) - Scientists closer to a more stable superheavy element
2010-10-29 - (gsn) - Energy chief calls for review of nuclear projects
2010-10-29 - (jt) - Work on first MOX plant starts
2010-10-29 - (lrp) - There's no good reason for anti-nuclear hysteria
2010-10-28 - (ig) - Nuclear doublespeak from Japan
2010-10-28 - (sr) - AAS email: Plutonium 238 production: An ongoing issue for Washington
2010-10-27 - (mo) - Will 'Megatons to Megawatts' solve the uranium supply pinch?
2010-10-26 - (ndw) - The AIP bulletin of science policy news
2010-10-24 - (tnt) - Hanford probes contents of burial grounds
2010-04-14 - (wp) - A summit goal: Making plutonium and uranium harder to get
2010-04-09 - (nyt) - Disposal of plutonium from U.S.-Russian disarmament is likely to take decades
