Title: Plutonium, Chemical Element - water, uses, elements, metal, number, name, symbol, property
Headings: PLUTONIUM
PLUTONIUM
Overview
SYMBOL
Pu
ATOMIC NUMBER
94
ATOMIC MASS
244.0642
Discovery and naming
Physical properties
Chemical properties
Occurrence in nature
Isotopes
Extraction
Uses
Using fuel to make fuel
Compounds
Health effects
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Content: They cause  uranium-235 to break apart, giving off energy. That energy is then used  to make electricity. But neutrons also collide with uranium-238 isotopes in the reactor. This  isotope does not undergo fission, but does undergo another kind of  change. It soaks up neutrons and changes into plutonium-239: The plutonium that is formed can be removed from the reactor. It is then  purified and re-used as fuel in another nuclear reactor. What an amazing process this is! One could compare it to the burning of  coal to make electricity. In a coal-fired power plant, coal is burned to  boil water.