Creating plutonium-227. Plutonium-227 is unique because it is “a very neutron-deficient plutonium isotope.” To create this rare isotope, the research team, led by Prof. Gan Zaiguo, used the ...

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A research team led by researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has synthesized a new plutonium isotope, plutonium-227. Their study is ...

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A research team led by researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has synthesized a new plutonium isotope, plutonium-227.

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