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

This process may be linked to conventional nuclear reactor technology in Accelerator-Driven Systems (ADS) to transmute heavy isotopes in spent nuclear fuel into shorter-lived fission products. … (These numbers compare with 200-210 MeV released by the fission of one uranium-235 or plutonium-239 atom.) A 1000 MeV beam will create 20-30 spallation neutrons per proton. Some are captured but the others go on to cause fissions at the rate of about 400 per source proton (@ 97% …

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