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"The Pacific Ocean is a major repository of plutonium released from atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons. Both global fallout from plutonium released to the str
by 8bitsrule 5y ago
"The Pacific Ocean is a major repository of plutonium released from atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons. Both global fallout from plutonium released to the stratosphere as well as close-in fallout from the troposphere contributed to the present levels of plutonium in seawater and sediment of the Pacific Ocean." [2001: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156948600180019X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156948600...]
Now that is fresh. NPR's article fails to tell us how we can tell 'space' Pu from 'test' Pu. It further confounds the issue by calling it 'freshly Made Plutonium From Outer Space' then stating that fresh means 'arrived on Earth within the last 10 million years'. Bad science article.
- khuey 5y agoThe isotope in question is plutonium 244 which isn't known to be produced in appreciable quantities by nuclear weapons testing or nuclear reactors.
- 3327 5y agoCould an alien ship have landed and the ship is decayed and plutonium is what remains?
- mjfisher 5y agoOr it turns out Bertrand Russell's teapot was made of Plutonium and de-orbited.
- saul_goodman 5y ago...Ancient...Aliens...