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ALTHOUGH plutonium is an extremely toxic radioactive element1,2 and has at least two long lived nuclides—239Pu (t½ = 24,000 yr) and 238Pu (t½ = 88 yr)—little is known of how it becomes dispersed; too few measurements have been made in particular in marine environments.
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WONG, K., HODGE, V. & FOLSOM, T. Plutonium and Polonium inside Giant Brown Algae. Nature 237, 460–462 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/237460a0
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