Glenn Theodore Seaborg3 November 1942
Seaborg warns that plutonium's alpha activity can make light-element impurities a serious unwanted neutron source.
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Seaborg warns that plutonium's alpha activity can make light-element impurities a serious unwanted neutron source.
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