It is also worth pointing out that we aren’t talking about enough plutonium here to do much with: he estimates that there is less than 1 mg of plutonium-240 in the source.

Annual modulation Fischbach and Jenkins first began looking for fluctuations in nuclear decays in 2006 after they came across the report of an experiment performed at Brookhaven National Laboratory ...

G. Edward Bixby’s letter regarding the decay of individual plutonium atoms completely misses the concept of “particle.” Plaintiffs’ testimony of July 17 in U.S. District Cou… ...

The most commonly-used isotopes -- and those found at Fukushima -- are plutonium 238, with a half life of 88 years; plutonium 239, with a half life of 24,000 years; and plutonium 240, with a half ...

Previous spacecraft travelling to the outer solar system have been powered by the decay of plutonium-238. The isotope is running out, though.