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Plutonium-240

Plutonium-240 (Pu or Pu-240) is an isotope of plutonium formed when plutonium-239 captures a neutron without undergoing fission. The detection of its spontaneous fission led to its discovery in 1944 at Los Alamos and had important consequences for the Manhattan Project.

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