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Plutonium occurs naturally, so you'd need to ask whomever you believe the Architect of the universe to be.

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It was discovered in 1940 by scientists studying how to split atoms to make atomic bombs. Plutonium is created in a reactor when uranium atoms absorb neutrons. Nearly all plutonium is man-made.

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