plutonium - a heavy, radioactive, man-made, metallic element (atomic number 94) used in the production of nuclear energy and the explosion of nuclear weapons; its most important isotope is fissile plutonium-239, ...
Plutonium: A radioactive metallic element chemically similar to uranium.
The group includes actinium, thorium , protactinium , uranium , neptunium , plutonium , americium , curium , californium etc. The members of the group are called actinides after the first in the series and they are all radioactive.
Nuclear reprocessing is the recovery of unused plutonium or uranium from irradiated fuel that has been used up in nuclear reactors- the systems used to carry out nuclear fission.
Plant designed to handle disposal of used nuclear fuel, high-level radioactive waste, and plutonium waste.
High-Level Radioactive Waste (HLRW) ...
Pen Branch, a third order, black water riparian wetland in the coastal plain of South Carolina, which deteriorated due to thermal pollution associated with the release of plutonium.
High-Level Nuclear Waste Facility: Plant designed to handle disposal of used nuclear fuel, high-level radioactive waste, and plutonium waste.
 See also: Air, Environmental, Exposure, Runoff, Liquid
  
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