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How long will it take for the plutonium to no longer exist?

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The time required for a radioactive substance to lose 50 percent of its radioactivity by decay is known as the half-life. Plutonium-238, plutonium-239, and plutonium-240 are isotopes of plutonium, and have half-lives of 87 years for plutonium-238, 24,065 years for plutonium-239, and 6,537 years for plutonium-240.

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Answer: Plutonium has a half life of 24,000 years meaning for plutonium to decay naturally, it would take 240,000 years.

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