plutonium 2
Should we begin to manufacture one of the most destuctive and infamous substances on the face of the Earth once again? The engineers say yes, but the public says no. The United States stopped making this element with the ban on manufacturing nuclear weapons. But with the continuing problem with our ever diminishing energy sources, some want us to begin using more nuclear energy and less energy from natural resources. This paper is going to discuss what plutonium is, the advantages and disadvantages of it's use, and why we should think about restarting the production of this useful element. In 1941, a scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, dicovered something that would chang our planet forever. The man's name, Glenn T. Seaborg, discovered the element plutonium. Plutonium or Pu #94 on the periodic table, is one of the most unstable elements on the Earth. It is formed when Uranium 235, another highly unstable element, absorbs a neutron. Plutonium is a silvery-white metal that has a very high density of 19.816 g/cm3. It has been rarely found in the earth's crust but the majority of the substance has to be produced in the cores of nuclear reactors.Plutonium can be foun
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Approximate Word count = 1446
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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