I think my question would be here: "Would this also eventually drift across the Mediterranean ocean and kill people eventually in Europe too? The answer likely would be: "Within 24,100 years this stuff could literally in the form of radioactive Dust could encircle the planet killing sporadically people everywhere over time. It only takes a few radioactive particles in your lungs to kill a person (like it did John Wayne) from making a movie too close to an old A-Bomb testing site in the U.S. Many other people in this movie also died from radiation poisoning from breathing in a few radiated particles eventually too caused by the A Bomb explosion and it's aftermath. However, the bomb went off possibly 10 to 20 years before and killed that much later.
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The primary isotope in weapons-grade plutonium is plutonium-239, which has a half-life of approximately 24,100 years. This means it takes about 24,100 years for half of the plutonium-239 atoms to decay into other elements. While plutonium-239 is the most common, weapons-grade plutonium also contains other isotopes like plutonium-240, which has a half-life of about 6,560 years. Isotopes of plutonium - Wikipedia
Twenty-two
plutonium radioisotopes have been characterized. The most stable are
244Pu with a half-life of 81.3 million years; 242P...
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8, 2021 — The isotope used in American nuclear weapons, plutonium 239,
has a specific activity (that is, an amount of radiation p...
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means that the chain reaction must be controlled–that is, the number of
neutrons produced needs to equal the number of neutro...
