Since the mid-20th century, plutonium in the environment has been primarily produced by human activity. The first plants to produce plutonium for use in Cold...

weapons built during the Cold War is a nuclear-proliferation and environmental concern. Other sources of plutonium in the environment are fallout from many...

make plutonium-238 when bombarded with neutrons in a lab. Plutonium in the environment has several sources. These include: Atomic batteries In space In pacemakers...

Plutonium-244 (244Pu) is an isotope of plutonium that has a half-life of 81.3 million years. This is longer than any other isotope of plutonium and longer...

The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War is a 1999 book by Eileen Welsome. It is a history of United States government-engineered...

her work on the movement of compounds such as plutonium in the environment. She was the 2016 recipient of the Garvan–Olin Medal from the American Chemical...

actinides heavier than plutonium into the environment; analysis of debris from the 1952 first test of a hydrogen bomb showed the presence of americium...

(primarily plutonium, americium, and uranium) contamination within and outside its boundaries. The contamination primarily resulted from two major plutonium fires...

of plutonium will be either mismanaged or released into the environment. In the past, one of the largest releases of plutonium into the environment has...

The demon core was a sphere of plutonium that was involved in two fatal radiation accidents when scientists tested it as a fissile core of an early atomic...

very few people outside the team of scientists being aware of the test. The device was of the implosion-type design with a plutonium core. It had a hexagonal...

directly or indirectly by humans. Modifying the environment to fit the needs of society (as in the built environment) is causing severe effects including global...

the 1950s used pits made with uranium-235 alone, or as a composite with plutonium. All-plutonium pits are the smallest in diameter and have been the standard...

Ministry of Supply in 1947 for the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons which required the construction of the Windscale Piles and the First Generation...

six actinides heavier than plutonium into the environment; analysis of debris from a 1952 hydrogen bomb explosion showed the presence of americium, curium...

space by the United States was SNAP 3B in 1961 powered by 96 grams of plutonium-238 metal, aboard the Navy Transit 4A spacecraft. One of the first terrestrial...

facility's primary mission was the fabrication of plutonium pits, the fissionable part of a bomb that produces a nuclear explosion. The pits were shipped to other...

42167°N 69.37028°W / 76.42167; -69.37028 Plutonium in the environment at Thule, Greenland, from sampling in 2003 International Radiation Protection Association...

Project, the site was home to the Hanford Engineer Works and B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world. Plutonium manufactured...

1957: a plutonium fire occurred at the Rocky Flats Plant, which resulted in the contamination of Building 71 and the release of plutonium into the atmosphere...

Plutonium compounds are compounds containing the element plutonium (Pu). At room temperature, pure plutonium is silvery in color but gains a tarnish when...

waste streams that may impact the environment: Spent nuclear fuel at the reactor site (including fission products and plutonium waste) Tailings and waste...

The plutonyl ion is an oxycation of plutonium in the oxidation state +6, with the chemical formula PuO2+ 2. It is isostructural with the uranyl ion, compared...

Laramee The Plutonium Files Eileen Welsome Ruth Faden Nuclear weapons tests Downwinders Nuclear Nebraska Plutonium in the environment Pollution of the Lake...

minor actinide is an actinide, other than uranium or plutonium, found in spent nuclear fuel. The minor actinides include neptunium (element 93), americium...

uses at present, it is used as a precursor for the formation of plutonium-238, which is in turn used in radioisotope thermal generators to provide electricity...

present in the used nuclear fuel. Weapons-grade and reactor-grade plutonium can be used in plutonium–thorium fuels, with weapons-grade plutonium being the one...

The 1849 Voyage of the HMS North Star The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, Simpkin, Marshall & Co. London 1850, p. 588 [dead link]Plutonium in the...

PUREX (plutonium uranium reduction extraction) is a chemical method used to purify fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons. It is based on liquid–liquid...

sites in Pakistan that can produce the by-products of plutonium in varying qualities and grades of plutonium.: 191–192  The reactor-grade plutonium is produced...