{"id":2765,"date":"2026-05-22T15:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:50:24","slug":"plutonium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/plutonium\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Plutonium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plutonium is a transuranic actinide with multiple allotropes and oxidation states, notable for its role in nuclear weapons and mixed oxide fuels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Plutonium<\/strong> | It exhibits complex phase behavior, multiple oxidation states +3 to +6 and is chemically reactive and radiotoxic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Plutonium<\/strong> | Produced in reactors from uranium, plutonium is used in nuclear weapons, MOX fuel and has applications in space power sources under strict controls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Plutonium<\/strong> | Plutonium 239 is fissile and long lived; plutonium handling, storage and disposal are subject to stringent safeguards, criticality safety and environmental regulations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radioactive actinide central to nuclear weapons and reactor fuel with complex chemistry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5854,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/5854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}