Medicine & TechnologyPlutonium is extremely rare to find on Earth, but researchers recently discovered the plutonium-244 deep in the Pacific Ocean that could be the result of "violent cosmic events" that occurred millions of years ago.
Plutonium sheds light to a new discovery for its use to clean up nuclear waste. The Hanford, Washington State underground tunnel collapse is a wake up call to expedite their research for its disposl. Hanford contains 56 million gallons of radioactive waste kept in underground storage tanks.