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It's not only plutonium, it's an unholy mess of everything from completely inert materials to extremely hazardous. Nuclear fission is not at all equivalent to a nice chemical reaction where A + B = C.

See this graph for the spread based on Z number (Protons + Neutrons).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission#/media/File%...



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