Plutonium

Plutonium

Plutonium ialah suatu unsur kimia dalam jadual berkala yang memiliki simbol Pu dan nombor atom 94. Plutonium merupakan sebuah logam berat, beracun, berwarna putih keperakan dan mempunyai sifat radioaktif semula jadi. Plutonium termasuk dalam siri aktinida.

Isotopnya, ²³⁹Pu digunakan sebagai bahan bakar reaktor nuklear dan senjata nuklear.

Lihat juga

• Pecahan uranium
• Teknik nuklear
• Putaran bahan bakar nuklear
• Fizik nuklear
• Reaktor nuklear
• Senjata nuklear

Rujukan

• Los Alamos National Laboratory's Chemistry Division: Periodic Table - Plutonium

Pautan luar

• "A Perspective on the Dangers of Plutonium" by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Collection of articles on plutonium at the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
• The Myth of Plutonium Toxicity
• Criticality Accidents Report Issued
• Nuclear Weapons: Disposal Options for Surplus Weapons-Usable Plutonium
• Unraveling the Phase Diagram of Plutonium
• Physical, Nuclear, and Chemical, Properties of Plutonium from IEER
• Los Alamos National Laboratory — Plutonium
• It's Elemental — Plutonium
• DOE Plutonium fact sheet (PDF)
• End of the Plutonium Age, D. Samuels, Discover Magazine, vol. 26, no. 11 (November, 2005).
• WebElements.com — Plutonium
• EnvironmentalChemistry.com — Plutonium (JavaScript required)
• Federation of American Scientists — Plutonium production
• nuclearweaponarchive.org — Plutonium Manufacture and Fabrication
• Ambient pressure phase diagram of plutonium — A unified theory for α-Pu and δ-Pu, P. Söderlind, Europhys. Lett., 55 (4), p. 525 (2001).
• Nuclear Files.org Information regarding world plutonium inventories
• "Challenges in Plutonium Science" — Special issue of Los Alamos Science from 2000 dedicated to scientific work on plutonium.