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ROB-ROX

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1. Which Pu isotope??

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 11:04 PM

Jan 2019

The decay of Pu may have an affect with the polymer? Selecting a more stable isotope like Pu - 239 versus Pu - 242 would be interesting. The University of California has an interesting nuclear chemistry group at LLL(Lawrence Livermore Lab), LBL(Lawrence Berkeley Lab), and LAL (Los Alamos Lab)

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Which Pu isotope?? ROB-ROX Jan 2019 #1

Three of the authors are from Los Alamos. The plutonium isotopic mixture... NNadir Jan 2019 #2