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Re: [Phys-l] radioactivity in the news -- actual measurements


On 2011, Mar 28, , at 13:20, chuck britton wrote:

I just 'learned' on NPR this afternoon the Plutonium is a fission
product - from the splitting of Uranium in the reactor. (ouch!!!)


Without the fissioning of U, Pu would not result, therefore it is a product of the fissioning -- even tho it's the result of neutron absorption.

bc is not going to cheque the dictionary definition to find he's wrong.