Plutonium By Federico Opertti
Introduction
- Second transuranium element discovered
- Part of acnitide group
- Melting point: 639.5 C
- Boiling point: 3235 C
- Varnishes at air exposure
History
- Discovered in 1940 in California
- Discovered by Dr. Glenn Seaborg
- Named after dwarf planet Pluto
- Was used in 1945 Nagasaki bombing
- Pu-238 brought back recently
Pu-238
- Used to power space crafts
- Neptunium-237 decays into it after 2.1 days
- A rare and expensive isotope
- Recently brought back to use in America
- Half life of 87.7 years
The "Fat Man" Bomb
- It was an implosion bomb
- The core was very dense
- Very effecient
- Only 1.176 kg of un-pure Pu-239
- Extremely refined Pu-239
Fun Facts
- One gram of Plutonium is $4000
- One gram of gold is $54
- It's density increases at melting
- It is primordial
- Pu-244's half life is 88 million years
Video
Bibliography
- "Los reactores ISM de GE podrían tener por fin la oportunidad de Comercializarse." La Flecha. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 May 2016
- Plutonium. Kids.Net.Au. Web. 19 May 2016. <http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/pl/Plutonium>.
- "Big Lies." The Color of Nuke/Nuclear Explosion Clouds I of II. N.p., n.d. Web.19 May 2016. <https://www.big-lies.org/NUKE-LIES/www.nukelies.com/forum/nuclear-mushroom-cloud-color-problems.html
- "Plutonium." World Nuclear Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 May 2016.<http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/fuel-recycling/plutonium.aspx>.
- Backgrounder on Plutonium." NRC. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 May 2016<http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/plutonium.html>.
- "Little Boy and Fat Man." Atomic Heritage Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 May2016. <http://www.atomicheritage.org/history/little-boy-and-fat-man>.
- Operations Crossroads Plutonium Bomb Nuclear Test "ABLE" in MarshallIslands...HD Stock Footage. YouTube. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 May 2016.<https://m.y
Created with images by GrrlScientist - "Plutonium_ring" • euthman - "Fat Man Nuclear Bomb Mockup" • skeeze - "atomic bomb nuclear weapon fat man"