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plutonium was first made in December 1940 at Berkeley, California, by Glenn Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph Kennedy, and Edwin McMillan.

plutonium was was used to make the "Fat Man" atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

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Plutonium - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table

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Element Plutonium (Pu), Group 20, Atomic Number 94, f-block, Mass [244]. Sources, facts, uses, scarcity (SRI), podcasts, alchemical symbols, videos and images.

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Plutonium hexafluoride is the highest fluoride of plutonium, and is of interest for laser enrichment of plutonium, in particular for the production of pure plutonium-239 from irradiated uranium.

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PuN has been prepared as a pure, stoichiometric compound by reacting plutonium metal with nitrogen in the presence of hydrogen. The nitride crystallizes in the rock-salt system with a lattice parameter ranging from 4.9033A for oxygen-free PuN to about 4.908A for oxygen-saturated PuN.

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Plutonium(IV) oxide is the chemical compound with the formula PuO₂. This high melting-point solid is a principal compound of plutonium.

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Plutonium(IV) fluoride is a chemical compound with the formula. It is a brown solid but can appear a variety of colors depending on the grain size, purity, moisture content, lighting, and presence of contaminants

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Plutonium(III) fluoride or plutonium trifluoride is the chemical compound composed of plutonium and fluorine with the formula PuF₃. This salt forms violet crystals.

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https://www.osti.gov/search/semantic:plutonium%20tetrafluoride
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Search for plutonium tetrafluoride | OSTI.GOV

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The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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Over the years, various power sources have been used for pacemakers, including thermoelectric batteries containing 2 to 4 curies of plutonium-238 (88 year half-life). As the term "thermoelectric" implies, the heat from the decaying plutonium is used to generate the electricity that stimulates the heart.

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plutonium is used in a nuclear power plant to produce power and electricity

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That solution is Plutonium a non-weapons-grade radioactive material that generates large amounts of heat. This heat is used to generate electricity for spacecraft day or night, dusty or clear, distant or not.

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plutonium was used in bombs and still is used in bombs to this day because of how radioactive it is

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The plutonium dribbles out a stream of alpha particles, generating heat that is turned into electricity by the probe's three roughly suitcase-sized radioisotope thermoelectric generators.

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Plutonium has five "common" isotopes, Pu-238, Pu-239, Pu-240, Pu-241, and Pu-242. All of the more common isotopes of plutonium are "fissionable"-which means the atom's nucleus can easily split apart if it is struck by a neutron.

The various isotopes of plutonium have been used in a number of applications. Plutonium-239 contains the highest quantities of fissile material, and is notably one of the primary fuels used in nuclear weapons. Plutonium-238 has more benign applications and has been used to power batteries for some heart pacemakers, as well as provide a long-lived heat source to power NASA space missions. Like uranium, plutonium can also be used to fuel nuclear power plants, as is done in a few countries. Currently, the U.S. does not use plutonium fuel in its power reactors.

Nuclear reactors that produce commercial power in the United States today create plutonium through the irradiation of uranium fuel. Some of the plutonium itself fissions-part of the chain reaction of splitting atoms that is the basis of nuclear power. Any plutonium that does not fission stays in the spent fuel. Spent nuclear fuel from U.S. reactors contains about one percent plutonium by weight.

The different isotopes have different "half-lives" - the time it takes for one-half of a radioactive substance to decay. Pu-239 has a half-life of 24,100 years and Pu-241's half-life is 14.4 years. Substances with shorter half-lives decay more quickly than those with longer half-lives, so they emit more energetic radioactivity.

Like any radioactive isotopes, plutonium isotopes transform when they decay. They might become different plutonium isotopes or different elements, such as uranium or neptunium. Many of the "daughter products" of plutonium isotopes are themselves radioactive.

Many metric tons of plutonium are currently contained in spent nuclear fuel around the world. To be usable, plutonium needs to be separated from the other products in spent fuel through a method called reprocessing. Reprocessing separates plutonium from uranium and fission products through chemical means.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is an independent federal government agency responsible for regulating the commercial use of nuclear materials. This document is free of copyright and can be reproduced for educational purposes.

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Printable Version Plutonium has five "common" isotopes, Pu-238, Pu-239, Pu-240, Pu-241, and Pu-242. All of the more common isotopes of plutonium are "fissionable"-which means the atom's nucleus can easily split apart if it is struck by a neutron. The various isotopes of plutonium have been used in a number of applications.