At the startup of Chernobyl there was no plutonium, the reactor fuel was uranium. The running of the reactor created some Pu, but the main problem was not Pu, instead the reactor fission products. The amount down in the canyon here in Los Alamos is small because Pu was scarce and expensive. They were not just dumping it.
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7:24 By the way the americium at Chernobyl is now more dangerous than Pu, due to the beta decay of Pu241 into Am241, which is an alpha emitter.
At the startup of Chernobyl there was no plutonium, the reactor fuel was uranium. The running of the reactor created some Pu, but the main problem was not Pu, instead the reactor fission products. The amount down in the canyon here in Los Alamos is small because Pu was scarce and expensive. They were not just dumping it.
By the way most smoke detectors have Americium in them.
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