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Plutonium is a heavy, radioactive, man-made, metallic element used in the production of nuclear energy.

Not only can non-fissile U-238 be bred into plutonium fuel, but abundant thorium can also be bred into U-233 fuel. We can have fuel that meets all our energy needs for thousands of years and waste that decays in a few hundred. …

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