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How abundant is plutonium on earth?

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Anonymous

10y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

Only trace levels, with the natural trace levels completely swamped out by the manmade trace levels from nuclear fallout (both from above ground weapons tests and the Chernobyl and Fukushima reactor disasters) by a factor of many millions.

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