Post by Marshall on Jan 23, 2009 1:40:41 GMT
An old glass jar inside a beaten up old safe at the bottom of a waste pit may seem an unlikely place to find a pivotal piece of 20th century history. But that's just where the first batch of weapons-grade plutonium ever made has been found - abandoned at the world's oldest nuclear processing site.
www.newscientist.com/article/dn16447-earliest-weaponsgrade-plutonium-found-in-us-dump.html
www.newscientist.com/article/dn16447-earliest-weaponsgrade-plutonium-found-in-us-dump.html