0 a radioactive element used in many nuclear processes (symbol Pu). -- plutonium
In addition, these areas also functioned as fast neutron breeder reactors, producing additional fissile material in the form of plutonium and other trans-uranic elements.
Each material consists of a list of (nuclide, fraction) pairs where the nuclide is in the range 1 (hydrogen) through 94 (plutonium).
Over the next 10 days, an area of about 1000# km, containing many villages and farms, was heavily contaminated with plutonium, caesium and radioactive iodine.
There are very few transactions involving plutonium and no standard market prices.
Secondly, we need to recover the unused uranium and the plutonium because of the energy which is locked up in them.
Is not plutonium so poisonous that one millionth of a gramme is all that a human being can breathe and survive?
Following privatisation, plutonium will continue to be handled as securely as it is at present.
There have, however, to date been two shipments of reprocessed plutonium fuel—plutonium nitrate—by sea between the sites in question.
