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What an interesting question. The answer is however complex.

It is possible to make small amounts of some radioactive elements or radioactive isotopes of some elements in a laboratory (usually involving a nuclear pile or an accelerator). For instance the element Plutonium is made this way.

(Other radioactive elements are produced naturally by the radioactive decay of heavier radioactive elements)

However, making a radioactive element or isotope from scratch requires the application of an enormous amount of energy. The place where all elements heavier than the element Iron (Fe - Atomic number 26) are made is in stellar explosions, the death of stars 8 or more times more massive than our Sun, called "supernovas".

It is in supernova explosions that the radioactive elements are made.

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