Article: GREECE: PLUTONIUM AND AMERICIUM FOUND BURRIED IN FOREST.

Article: Plutonium: rising terror threat.(FEATURES)(PLANET)
The Christian Science Monitor;  October 7, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... televised debate. So why is the US moving plutonium from military to less secure civilian ... programs that teach other nations how to use plutonium in nuclear power plants after a quarter ... watch for unmarked white trucks carrying plutonium-based fuel to French nuclear power ...

Article: Plutonium: the disposal decision.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;  March 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... up to 50 metric tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium (essentially, plutonium 239) into forms that would make it less useful ... and Russia work together to make surplus weapons plutonium less attractive for weapons use? Energy Secretary ...

Article: Plutonium-an Element Never at Equilibrium
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... from the α-particle decay of plutonium damages its crystal lattice and transmutes plutonium into other elements over time (principally ... causes significant volume expansion of pure plutonium and contraction of face-centered-cubic ...

Article: Plutonium protest: environmentalists believe shipping ...
Chemistry and Industry;  October 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The shipment of enough weaponsgrade plutonium across the Atlantic ocean to make about ... The aim is to transport stockpiled plutonium to plants where it can be converted into ... as Greenpeace want to see stockpiled plutonium put out of harm's way, but they are ...

Article: Plutonium (revised)
Chemical Elements: From Carbon to Krypton;      700+ words ...PLUTONIUM (REVISED) Note: This article, originally ... 2006 for the eBook edition. Overview Plutonium is a synthetic (artificial) element ... in the smallest imaginable amounts. Plutonium was first prepared artificially by a ...

Transcript: PLUTONIUM AND THE U.S. MIXED OXIDE FUEL ...
Congressional Testimony;  July 26, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Russia should do with the tens of tons of plutonium no longer needed for their nuclear weapons ... Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium, issued in two volumes in 1994 and 1995 ... principal staffer for the interagency plutonium disposition working group and for the ...

Article: Plutonium: A reactive nuclear metal
JOM;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... coincident with a recent topical conference on plutonium (Pu Futures-The Science 2003), we ... this issue to the materials science of plutonium (a reactive nuclear metal!). Former ... introduction and overview of the metallurgy of plutonium. The next article, by J.C. Martz ...