X-Nico

unusual facts about Plutonium-238


Plutonium-238

This same RTG power technology has been used in spacecraft such as Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini–Huygens and New Horizons, and in other devices, such as the Mars Science Laboratory,


2007 South Florida Bulls football team

Sophomore QB Matt Grothe was 23–39 for 238 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions.

Alan Ratcliffe

This record though stood for only one day, as the next day the Nawab of Pataudi broke this record by scoring 238 not out for Oxford University.

Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot

Rhynchotes. Méthode mononymique, in Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (2): 1845, T.3: 369-492; 1846, T.4: 73-192; 359-452; 1847, T.5:143-238; 453-524 (1845-1847).

Chris Markey

Markey rushed for a season-high 131 yards and led the Bruins with five receptions for 84 yards including his 23-yard kickoff return, Markey accounted for 238 all-purpose yards and his 29-yard run to the three-yard line immediately preceded Manuel White's touchdown that broke a 7-7 tie and his 50-yard catch and run set up White's second TD that gave UCLA a 21-3 lead.

Cillit Bang

In August 2009 it was revealed that household cleaners such as Cillit Bang and Mr. Muscle have been used to clean plutonium stains at the defunct Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, Scotland.

Eve Andree Laramee

This work zeroes-in on sites where Uranium mining/milling, plutonium production for nuclear weaponss and the nuclear energy industry have contaminated surface water, well water and deep aquifer water with radioactive isotopes and her work archives this atomic legacy.

Experimentation on prisoners

The Plutonium Files, for which Eileen Welsome won a Pulitzer Prize, documents the early human tests of the toxicity of plutonium and uranium on people.

Frank W. Bubb, Sr.

He was a part of the team that developed the cyclotron that produced the first batch of plutonium for the then secret program only referred to as the Manhattan Project, which produced the atomic bomb.

GPHS-RTG

Note that the GPHS are cuboid although they contain cylindrical plutonium based pellets.

Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 2005–06

Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh and Irfan Pathan all fell short of their half-centuries, and though Pakistan sent down 17 no-balls, they still bowled out India for 238 midway through the second day.

Jacob Goebbert

2009: Goebbert was sent to the short season A affiliate for Houston, the Tri-City ValleyCats, where he would hit .238 while driving in 18 runs.

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

However it was not employed for the Fat Man bomb at Nagasaki, which relied on implosion of a plutonium shell to reach critical mass.

José Enrique Moyal

C. K. Zachos, D. B. Fairlie, and T. L. Curtright, "Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space" (World Scientific, Singapore, 2005) ISBN 981-238-384-0.

Joseph Dudley

 238, “Gov. Joseph Dudley (16 - ), son of Gov. Thomas Dudley, No 1. HL, own hair long, robe and steinkirk, right hand gesturing across body. Repro. Hist. Dudley Fam opp p. 834, photo by Elmer Chickering, Boston. Ref.: Hist. Dudley Fam., pp. 757, 163, “Memorial of Reunion,” p.

Joseph W. Kennedy

Joseph William Kennedy (May 30, 1916 – May 5, 1957) was an American scientist credited with being a co-discoverer of plutonium along with Glenn T. Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, and Arthur Wahl.

Kentucky Route 61

Kentucky Route 61 (KY 61) is a 148.006 mile (238.193 km) long Kentucky State Highway extending north from the Tennessee state line in Cumberland County to Columbia in Adair County through to Greensburg in Green County.

Lady Cochrane Sursock

William Dalrymple (1997): From the Holy Mountain (interview with Lady Cochrane Sursock, p. 238-42)

LGBT rights in Puerto Rico

In 2013, Senator Ramón Luis Nieves introduced Senate Bill 238 to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Lovell Coleman

He holds the Stamps record for most rushing yards in one game, with 238 against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on September 15, 1964.

Lucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus

He married Aurelia Fadilla (b. ca 120), daughter of Antoninus Pius and Annia Galeria Faustina or Faustina the Elder, and had a daughter Silvana (b. ca 120), who married Marcus Annius Severus, a Suffect Consul, and they would be the parents of Fabia Orestilla (ca 160 – bef. 238), wife of Gordian I.

Maxial da Estrada

A small village in the municipality of Sertã, Maxial da Estrada is located 5 km north of Sertã, Portugal on national road EN 238.

McDonald Ranch House

The test occurred on July 16, 1945; a plutonium bomb was tested, the type of weapon later dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

Megaton Man

When he first gained his powers, Megaton Man was known as Megaton Lad and had a sidekick called Plutonium Pup, a reference to Krypto the Superdog.

Metallurgical Laboratory

Early funding was meager, but in 1940, scientists at Columbia University and the University of California demonstrated the weapons potential of the isotope uranium-235 and the newly discovered element plutonium.

Mondas

The monthly series of comic strips written by Alan Barnes and drawn by Adrian Salmon, The Cybermen (DWM no. 215–238) ignored this and took place on an unspoiled version of Mondas.

New York State Route 238

Outside of Attica Center, NY 238 winds its way northward toward the village of Attica, passing the eastern edge of the Attica and Wyoming Correctional Facilities—more prominently the work farm operated by the facilities.

Nikolay Dollezhal

In 1957 Dollezhal Institute launched their first dual-use (civilian energy and weapons-grade plutonium) powerplant, Type EI, and seven years later, the first truly industrial Beloyarsk power plant.

Nuclear safety in the United States

During the Cold War, the project was expanded to include nine nuclear reactors and five large plutonium processing complexes, which produced plutonium for most of the 60,000 weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Oregon Route 238

OR 238 begins, at its western terminus, at an interchange with U.S. Route 199 and Oregon Route 99 in Grants Pass.

Ron Jackson

In 2003 the Sox set ML records for extra-base hits, total bases and slugging, finishing one off the major league lead with 238 home runs.

Saint-Laurent Nuclear Power Plant

Much later, the Institute of Marine Biochemistry at the École normale supérieure de Montrouge claimed that they found traces of plutonium in the river which they believed was released in the 1980 or 1969 accident many years ago.

Second Reconstruction

Eric Foner and Joshua Brown, Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 2005, 225-238.

Seleucid Empire

Soon after however, a Parthian tribal chief called Arsaces invaded the Parthian territory around 238 BC to form the Arsacid Dynasty — the starting point of the powerful Parthian Empire.

Sima Yi's Liaodong campaign

Sima Yi's Liaodong campaign occurred in 238 during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.

Stephen Drew

In 2007, although the Diamondbacks would be division champions that year, Drew had a disappointing season, hitting only .238 with 12 home runs but a career-high 9 stolen bases.

Students for a Libertarian Society

As part of this effort, it worked closely with scientist John Gofman, a veteran of the Manhattan Project and a key developer of an early process for separating plutonium from fission products, in a campaign to repeal such subsides for nuclear power as the Price Anderson Act.

Superior rectus muscle

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Tannheim Mountains

The highest elevations in the Tannheim Mountains are the Kellenspitze (2,238 m) and Gimpel (2,176 m), that may easily be ascended from Nesselwängle in the Tannheim valley.

The Computer Wore Menace Shoes

Homer keeps his anonymity while posting more rumors and finds out Mr. burns plans to sell plutonium to terrorists and is later arrested by the C.I.A. Eventually, Mr. X wins the Pulitzer Prize for his journalistic achievements, despite nobody knowing who he is.

The Media Elite

The book is based on a survey, completed in 1980, of 238 journalists randomly selected from America's most influential news organizations: ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.

The Strange Encounter

The shoulder strap had the words: "Yellow King, 8061, Danger, Light, Plutonian, H, Poplar Trees, Temple 1954" which translate into: Basam Damdu, the year of origin of the invaders, the threat, the lights used for time travel, the plutonium that is part of the H-bombs, Operation Poplar Trees and a comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel which is due to appear on the 17 October 1954 in just a few days time and will be used to get the bombs into the future.

Tungsten carbide

A criticality accident occurred at Los Alamos National Laboratory on 21 August 1945 when Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium sphere, causing the subcritical mass to go supercritical with the reflected neutrons.

Ulrich Wille

Wille decided to concentrate the bulk of his forces (238,000 men and 50,000 horses) close to the borders, particularly in Ajoie and Engadine.

Uranium-238

DUCRETE, a concrete made with uranium dioxide aggregate instead of gravel, is being investigated as a material for dry cask storage systems to store radioactive waste.


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