Doc Brown
Fictional Character
"I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by."
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Plutonium
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Johnny Carson
Television Host
"What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?"
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"The concept of this so-called "TerraPower reactor" is that you, in the same reactor, you both burn and breed. So, instead of making plutonium and then extracting it, we take uranium - the 99.3 percent that you normally don't do anything with - we convert that, and we burn it."
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"There was a concept a long time ago that you would do a different type of reactor called a "fast reactor," that would make a bunch of another element called plutonium, and then you would pull that out, and then you would burn that. That's called "breeding" in a fast reactor. That is bad because plutonium is nuclear weapons material. It's messy. The processing you have to get through is not only environmentally difficultly, it's extremely expensive."
Barack Obama
Politician
"Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb."
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