Physicists Synthesize New Isotope of Plutonium. The newly-discovered isotope, plutonium-227, has a half-life of 0.78 seconds.
Physicists Synthesize New Isotope of Plutonium. The newly-discovered isotope, plutonium-227, has a half-life of 0.78 seconds.
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If you had an earth-sized mass of this isotope, you could wait 64.2 seconds and only about a kg of it would remain(the rest would decay into another isotope)
Super dumb question but could you theoretically create a weapon that was safe until you synthesize the fuel then fission it?