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Definition of Plutonium 239

1. Noun. A highly fissionable isotope of plutonium that is used in atomic weapons and as a reactor fuel; produced by irradiating uranium 238 with slow electrons.

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Literary usage of Plutonium 239

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nuclear Security: Doe Needs Better Information to Guide Its Expanded by Gene Aloise (2006)
"According to the source recovery project team leader, DOE's plan has been to recover over 100 remaining plutonium-239 registered sources, ..."

2. Nuclear Security: Doe Needs Better Information to Guide Its Expanded by Gene Aloise (2006)
"According to the source recovery project team leader, DOE's plan has been to recover over 100 remaining plutonium-239 registered sources, ..."

3. Dismantling the Bomb and Managing the Nuclear Materials (1994)
"Plutonium-239 can be chemically separated from spent reactor fuel. ... 2 Plutonium-239 does not exist in nature but is extracted from spent uranium fuel ..."

4. Taking Stock: A Look At The Opportunities & Challenges Posed by Inventories by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"The Department manages approximately 52.6 metric tons of plutonium that is excess to national security needs (ie, Plutonium-239, Plutonium-238 greater than ..."

5. The Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation Program: Technology Profiles (1993)
"Bench tests were conducted at the DOE Rocky Flats Plant, Golden, Colorado removing uranium-234, uranium- 238, plutonium-239, and americium-241 from ..."

6. Dismantling the Bomb and Managing the Nuclear Materials (1994)
"Plutonium-239 can be chemically separated from spent reactor fuel. ... 2 Plutonium-239 does not exist in nature but is extracted from spent uranium fuel ..."

7. Taking Stock: A Look At The Opportunities & Challenges Posed by Inventories by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"The Department manages approximately 52.6 metric tons of plutonium that is excess to national security needs (ie, Plutonium-239, Plutonium-238 greater than ..."

8. The Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation Program: Technology Profiles (1993)
"Bench tests were conducted at the DOE Rocky Flats Plant, Golden, Colorado removing uranium-234, uranium- 238, plutonium-239, and americium-241 from ..."

9. Nuclear Energy Today by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2003)
"... which can transform into fissile plutonium-239, and thorium-232, which can transform into fissile uranium-233. Fissile materials A fissile material is a ..."

10. Nuclear Energy Today by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2003)
"... which can transform into fissile plutonium-239, and thorium-232, which can transform into fissile uranium-233. Fissile materials A fissile material is a ..."

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