Title: How to Make Plutonium
Headings: How to Make Plutonium
How to Make Plutonium
1 RECEIVE NEPTUNIUM-237
2 ELIMINATE PROTACTINIUM
3 CREATE TARGETS
4 IRRADIATE NEPTUNIUM
5 EXTRACT TARGETS
6 SEPARATE PLUTONIUM
7 SEND TO LOS ALAMOS

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The inside of the wet hot cell at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where scientists use nitric acid and columns of silica glass to remove dangerously radioactive material that accrues in neptunium—plutonium's precursor—during shipping from Idaho National Laboratory. By Kevin Dupzyk
Aug 1, 2017
Greg Miller
The strangest product catalog on earth belongs to the Isotope Business Office, which manages the sale of atomic isotopes produced at Department of Energy labs around the country. It's got your calcium, platinum, and titanium. Your ytterbium, your strontium-90, and of course uranium-235 and plutonium-239 (responsible for Hiroshima and Nagasaki). In this catalog, plutonium-238 is the only-on-one-model-year carburetor from the old car you've somehow kept running: useful, unique—and discontinued. And the old car is a spacecraft: