Talk:Plutonium

Natural occurrence
"Plutonium is the element with the highest atomic number known to occur in nature" - not true, see the WIKIPEDIA sites on (1) natural nuclear reactors in Gabon, (2) the Przybylski star...Eudialytos (talk) 19:53, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Paramagnetism
Someone whose exotic-magnetism chops are less rusty than mine should express an opinion as to whether Study confirms, Plutonium has no Magnetism (currently cited under Science, but no subheading, on Google News) and/or other new Google hits indeed require updating our coverage on the accompanying article, which appears to me be satisfied (as of an unrelated edit an hour ago) with "Magnetic ordering [is] paramagnetic" (in the InfoBox) as the only magnetism-relevant fact. It also makes me wonder if the new result suggests the paramagnetism would extinguish at temperatures sufficiently low that thermal noise is lower than energy-level differences anomalously close between states differing (i presume) in more than a single quantum number ....? (I'd bet there are at least some editors who have a better idea than i about which related but more general quantum-magnetism topics are likely to have been edited by the most suitable editors for the task.) --Jerzy•t 07:51 & 07:56, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Applications->Mixed oxide fuel->DOE plans for MOX plant
Currently the plans to convert plutonium to MOX fuels are terminated and the proposed approach is "dilute and dispose" - dilute with reactor grade plutonium and dispote at WIPP complex. https://www.nap.edu/resource/25593/interactive/ I propose to adjust the topic accordingly