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

The first stage employs the pressurized heavy-water and light water reactors, to produce plutonium. Stage two uses fast neutron reactors to burn the plutonium and breed uranium-233 from locally mined thorium. The blanket around the core …

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