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Plutonium is also the main fissile material in nuclear weapons, but it was revealed that ordinary people could purchase plutonium on a US website.

The spectacularly failed MOX plant would have processed old plutonium pits from de-commissioned US nuclear weapons per a nuclear weapons agreement with the Russians in 2000.

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Technology Military Weapons Yakuza boss tried to traffic nuclear weapons-grade plutonium Takeshi Ebisawa pleaded guilty after attempting to offload weapons, drugs, and radioactive material.

Plutonium pits are hollow spheres that cause the nuclear explosion of these deadly weapons. Usually, a chemical explosion will compress the pit, triggering a fission reaction within the plutonium.

It is operated by the U.S. federal government. For nearly 30 years, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of Energy produced tons of plutonium for use in the U.S. atomic weapons program.