Plutonium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pu and atomic number 94. It is an actinide metal of silvery-gray appearance that tarnishes when exposed... 141 KB (15,146 words) - 18:21, 23 April 2024 |
Plutonium-238 (238Pu or Pu-238) is a radioactive isotope of plutonium that has a half-life of 87.7 years. Plutonium-238 is a very powerful alpha emitter;... 38 KB (3,994 words) - 12:08, 1 April 2024 |
Plutonium (94Pu) is an artificial element, except for trace quantities resulting from neutron capture by uranium, and thus a standard atomic weight cannot... 26 KB (2,622 words) - 02:25, 21 April 2024 |
Look up Plutonium, plutonium, or plutónium in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plutonium is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Pu and atomic number... 834 bytes (146 words) - 13:20, 17 December 2022 |
Plutonium-244 (244Pu) is an isotope of plutonium that has a half-life of 80 million years. This is longer than any of the other isotopes of plutonium... 14 KB (1,698 words) - 22:16, 24 March 2024 |
Pit (nuclear weapon) (redirect from Plutonium pit) 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 since... 54 KB (6,038 words) - 19:06, 5 April 2024 |
"Thin Man" was the code name for a proposed plutonium-fueled gun-type nuclear bomb that the United States was developing during the Manhattan Project... 17 KB (2,163 words) - 13:30, 1 April 2024 |
Weapons-grade nuclear material (redirect from Weapons-grade plutonium) properties that make it particularly suitable for nuclear weapons use. Plutonium and uranium in grades normally used in nuclear weapons are the most common... 13 KB (2,075 words) - 00:23, 10 January 2024 |
Nuclear reprocessing (redirect from Plutonium uranium extraction) used solely to extract plutonium for producing nuclear weapons. With commercialization of nuclear power, the reprocessed plutonium was recycled back into... 89 KB (9,019 words) - 14:57, 23 February 2024 |
Manhattan Project (section Plutonium) Site, in which uranium was irradiated and transmuted into plutonium. The Fat Man plutonium implosion-type weapon was developed in a concerted design and... 176 KB (21,493 words) - 14:38, 2 May 2024 |
Ploutonion at Hierapolis (redirect from Plutonium at Hierapolis) (Ancient Greek: Πλουτώνειον Ploutōneion, lit "Place of Pluto"; Latin: Plutonium) or Pluto's Gate was a ploutonion (a religious site dedicated to the god... 10 KB (932 words) - 15:20, 10 April 2024 |
Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant (redirect from Plutonium contamination of the Denver metropolitan area) (primarily plutonium, americium, and uranium) contamination within and outside its boundaries. The contamination primarily resulted from two major plutonium fires... 94 KB (9,882 words) - 00:48, 6 April 2024 |
The Nanda Devi Plutonium Mission was a joint operation by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB)... 8 KB (737 words) - 20:28, 26 March 2024 |
mid-20th century, plutonium in the environment has been primarily produced by human activity. The first plants to produce plutonium for use in cold war... 27 KB (2,987 words) - 21:27, 1 May 2024 |
Plutonium fluoride can refer to: Plutonium trifluoride, PuF3 Plutonium tetrafluoride, PuF4 Plutonium pentafluoride, PuF5 Plutonium hexafluoride, PuF6 This... 538 bytes (51 words) - 03:00, 10 April 2024 |
synthetically produced plutonium are the most abundant actinides on Earth. These have been used in nuclear reactors, and uranium and plutonium are critical elements... 130 KB (11,594 words) - 05:53, 24 March 2024 |
Plutonium-240 (240 Pu or Pu-240) is an isotope of plutonium formed when plutonium-239 captures a neutron. The detection of its spontaneous fission led... 9 KB (994 words) - 13:57, 8 February 2024 |
Breeder reactor (redirect from Plutonium economy) fission of plutonium generated within the fuel. Even with this level of plutonium consumption, light water reactors consume only part of the plutonium and minor... 85 KB (8,717 words) - 22:38, 18 April 2024 |
131 kBq (3.55 μCi) of plutonium without his knowledge because it was erroneously believed that he had a terminal disease. Plutonium remained present in... 22 KB (2,771 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2024 |
plutonium can be used in plutonium–thorium fuels, with weapons-grade plutonium being the one that shows a bigger reduction in the amount of plutonium-239... 25 KB (3,226 words) - 00:36, 15 April 2024 |
Demon core (category Plutonium) 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... 27 KB (2,556 words) - 14:51, 2 May 2024 |
Plutonian Ode (redirect from Plutonium Ode) "Plutonian Ode" is a poem written by American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1978 against the arms race and nuclear armament of the superpowers. It is heavily... 1 KB (101 words) - 11:48, 14 October 2022 |