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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (389473)	4/10/2003 3:27:48 PM
From: Land Shark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I mean a Pu production reactor dimwit. All plutonium originates in nuclear reactors and is produced by the capture of extra neutrons by uranium-238 to form U-239, which then undergoes a series of decays to form Pu-239: U-238 + n -> U-239 -> Np-239 -> Pu-239 Some of this plutonium gets consumed by fission before it is removed from the reactor, and some of it gets transmuted to heavier isotopes of plutonium by capturing more neutrons: Pu-239 + n -> Pu-240 Pu is pretty friggen hard to comebye. Pu in that quantity, in drums would surely be missed by somebody. Technology retarted? You know what "reactor" means?