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by azernik
2004 days ago
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After it decays, it's no longer plutonium; instead it's uranium-234. Uranium's heavy-metal toxicity is quite well-established, and uranium-234 is more radioactive than the natural isotopic mix, but at the low-single-digit-kilogram scale involved in the SNAP-27 RTG it's not a major concern. |
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