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

I plan to write much more extensively about nuclear power, about why it’s good whilst also being not so great, but for now here’sa short abstract of stance on nuclear energy, and why. Stay tuned for a follow-up post on this, too. …

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North Korea has moved to restart a disabled nuclear reactor and takes other provocative steps, including expelling UN inspectors and test-firing missiles. Those steps in recent weeks have heightened tensions in the region and place the …

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The kind of nuclear reaction that happens inside a nuclear reactor is called nuclear fission. The fuel is uranium or plutonium, two very heavy elements which have many protons and neutrons in their nuclei. …

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Thisunprecedented level of safety for a defense-in-depth system, when applied to so complex a systemas a nuclear reactor, meant that the safety system itself had to be enormously complex, whichmade it maintenance-intensive, and, …

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A nuclear reactor can currently be scaled to fit everything from comparatively small aircraft carriers and submarines to the biggest metropolises. Recent developments, including the Toshiba 4S, seek to make the nuclear reactor even …

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… of the nuclear reactor. Now a 10-megawatt reactor was being built in Myaing Township, Magwe Division, and further that it was to use heavy water and, for that reason, that it would be able to produce plutonium (read Bertil Lintner’s …

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