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Plutonium-239 has a half life of 24,000 years, but the human memory operates on a far shorter span.
Erich Pica: Waking Up to a Nuclear Nightmare Erich Pica 2011
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Plutonium-239 has a half life of 24,000 years, but the human memory operates on a far shorter span.
Erich Pica: Waking Up to a Nuclear Nightmare Erich Pica 2011
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Samples from Iitate, a village located 28 miles from the power plant, registered 0.82 becquerels of Plutonium-238 and 2.5 becquerels of Plutonium-239 and -240.
Japan Discovers Plutonium Far From Crippled Reactor Toko Sekiguchi 2011
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Now, the Pakistanis are believed to have both Plutonium-239 and Tritium production facilities.
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However, in Chapter II of the Cox Committee report, the whole world learned – courtesy Chairman Chris Cox and Counsel Scooter Libby – that the secret to making a compact missile-deliverable nuke was to make a non-removable pit out of Plutonium-239 and to boost it with Tritium.
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(The half-life of Plutonium-239, one particularly lethal component of nuclear waste, is 24,000 years.)
Steven Crandell: McCain, Obama & the Trojan Horse of Nuclear Energy 2008
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The half-life of Plutonium-239, one particularly lethal component of nuclear waste, is 24,000 years.
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However, in Chapter II of the Cox Committee report, the whole world learned – courtesy Chairman Chris Cox and Counsel Scooter Libby – that the secret to making a compact missile-deliverable nuke was to make a non-removable pit out of Plutonium-239 and to boost it with Tritium.
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Therefore, Plutonium-239 will remain hazardous for at least 240,000 years.
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Now, the Pakistanis are believed to have both Plutonium-239 and Tritium production facilities.
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