Plutonium

Plutonium adalah suatu unsur kimia dalam tabel periodik yang memiliki lambang Pu dan nomor atom 94. Sebuah logam berat, beracun, berwarna putih keperakan dan radioaktif alami, plutonium termasuk ke seri aktinida (actinide series).

isotopnya ²³⁹Pu digunakan sebagai bahan bakar reaktor nuklir dan senjata nuklir.

Lihat juga

• Depleted uranium
• Teknik nuklir
• Putaran bahan bakar nuklir
• Fisika nuklir
• Reaktor nuklir
• Senjata nuklir

Referensi

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

Pranala 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.