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 |
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... 12 KB (1,106 words) - 21:06, 13 April 2024 |
Weapons-grade nuclear material (redirect from Weapons-grade plutonium) particularly suitable for nuclear weapons use. Plutonium and uranium in grades normally used in nuclear weapons are the most common examples. (These nuclear materials... 13 KB (2,075 words) - 00:23, 10 January 2024 |
Actinide (category Pages that use a deprecated format of the chem tags) 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 |
Pit (nuclear weapon) (redirect from Plutonium pit) 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... 54 KB (6,038 words) - 19:06, 5 April 2024 |
Ploutonion at Hierapolis (redirect from Plutonium at Hierapolis) The Ploutonion at Hierapolis (Ancient Greek: Πλουτώνειον Ploutōneion, lit "Place of Pluto"; Latin: Plutonium) or Pluto's Gate was a ploutonion (a religious... 10 KB (932 words) - 15:20, 10 April 2024 |
Environmental radioactivity (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter) 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... 27 KB (3,223 words) - 23:19, 10 March 2024 |
Plutopia (redirect from Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters) comparative history of the cities of Richland, in the northwest United States adjacent to the U.S. Department of Energy Hanford Site plutonium production area... 5 KB (414 words) - 15:16, 17 January 2024 |
Nuclear reprocessing (redirect from Plutonium uranium extraction) nuclear power, the reprocessed plutonium was recycled back into MOX nuclear fuel for thermal reactors. The reprocessed uranium, also known as the spent fuel... 89 KB (9,019 words) - 14:57, 23 February 2024 |
existed in nature as an extinct radionuclide. Nuclear tests have released at least six actinides heavier than plutonium into the environment; analysis... 21 KB (1,820 words) - 17:31, 19 October 2023 |
Radioisotope thermoelectric generator (redirect from Nuclear-powered lighthouses in the Soviet Union) 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... 64 KB (6,999 words) - 12:35, 17 March 2024 |
Demon core (redirect from Tickling the dragon's tail) 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 |
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... 6 KB (511 words) - 08:06, 10 November 2023 |
Rocky Flats Plant (category Nuclear technology in the United States) was the fabrication of plutonium pits, which were shipped to other facilities to be assembled into nuclear weapons. Operated from 1952 to 1992, the complex... 55 KB (6,228 words) - 07:12, 3 April 2024 |
Health, Safety and Security | Nuclear Safety and Environment | Plutonium Archived 2015-02-21 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 3 September 2013; archived... 8 KB (810 words) - 03:18, 13 April 2024 |
Sellafield (category Nuclear weapons infrastructure of the United Kingdom) Supply in 1947 for the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons which required the construction of the Windscale Piles and the First Generation Reprocessing... 135 KB (13,410 words) - 19:52, 22 April 2024 |
Little Boy (category History of the Manhattan Project) derived its explosive power from the nuclear fission of uranium-235, whereas Thin Man was based on fission of plutonium-239. Fission was accomplished by... 58 KB (7,375 words) - 22:43, 30 April 2024 |
Narsaarsuk (category Ghost towns in Greenland) 42167°N 69.37028°W / 76.42167; -69.37028 Plutonium in the environment at Thule, Greenland, from sampling in 2003 International Radiation Protection Association... 1 KB (84 words) - 23:33, 6 April 2023 |
Imprisonment: The 1849 Voyage of the HMS North Star The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, Simpkin, Marshall & Co. London 1850, p. 588 Plutonium in the environment... 4 KB (430 words) - 23:30, 6 April 2023 |