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            Plutonium, Our Country's Only Feasible Solution.
            
             Should we begin to manufacture one of the most destructive and infamous.
             substances on the face on the Earth once again? The engineers say yes, but.
             the public says no. The United States stopped making this element with the.
             ban on manufacturing nuclear weapons. But with the continuing problem with.
             our ever diminishing energy sources, some want us to begin using more.
             nuclear energy and less energy from natural resources. This paper is going.
             to discuss what plutonium is, the advantages and disadvantages of its use,.
             and why we should think about restarting our production of this useful.
             element.
             After the United States dropped "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" on Japan ending.
             World War II, the public has had some type of understanding about the.
             power of plutonium and its devastating properties, but that is all anyone.
             heard. .
             After WWII, Americans started to think about what the atomic bomb could do.
             to the U.S. and its people. When anyone mentioned plutonium or the word.
             "nuclear" the idea of Hiroshima or Nagasaki being destroyed was the first.
             thing people thought about. No one could even ponder the idea that it.
             could be used for other more constructive things like sources of energy or.
             to kept a person's heart beating. Then we started to build more reactors.
             and produce more of the substance but mostly for our nuclear weapons.
             programs.
             Along with reactors, sometimes comes a meltdown which can produce harmful.
             effects if it isn't controlled quickly enough. After such instances as the.
             Hanford, Washington reactor meltdown and the accident in the U.S.S.R. at.
             the Chernobyl site, no one wanted to hear about the use of plutonium. The.
             United States government banned nuclear testing and also ended the.
             production of plutonium.(Ref. 5) Now we are in a dilemma.
             We are in need of future sources of energy to power our nation. We are.
             running out of coal and oil to run our power plants.(Ref. 7) We also need.


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