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

First, however, it must be reprocessed at a specialized site to use again as fuel by separating the plutonium and uranium atoms from the fission products. This also makes it easier to steal. (For this and other reasons, the U.S. does …

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