Approx. 4ooo US $ per gram for nuclear weapons quality plutonium; the price for nuclear reactors grade plutonium is lower.
Nuclear weapons with plutonium don't contain TNT.
Approx. 4 000 US $ for weapon-grade plutonium (in 2010).
The mass is 18,753 kg.
Nagasaki (Japan) - 9 August 1945 - a bomb containing 6,4 kg of Plutonium 239
Plutonium is only paramagnetic.
depends on what you think is expensive. if you think $4000 per gram is expensive, then yes.
The Little Boy bomb had not plutonium.
Nuclear weapons with plutonium don't contain TNT.
Approx. 4 000 US $ for weapon-grade plutonium.
1 plutonium (solid) gallon = 71,337 kg
Approx. 4 000 US $ for weapon-grade plutonium (in 2010).
Some plutonium chemical compounds; plutonium dioxide, plutonium nitride, plutonium carbide, plutonium nitrate, plutonium trifluoride, plutonium chloride, etc.
Plutonium for use in nuclear weapons is alloyed with gallium. Delta-phase plutonium is alloyed at 3-3.5 molar percent, or by weight, 0.8 - 1%. Alloying plutonium with gallium increases its thermodynamic stability throughout a range of temperatures, and decreases plutonium's susceptibility to corrosion.
roughly $85,000
2000
The mass is 18,753 kg.
Nagasaki (Japan) - 9 August 1945 - a bomb containing 6,4 kg of Plutonium 239