Your question is slightly off. You could ask how much energy plutonium has, since plutonium can be used as a fuel to run a nuclear power plant and to generate electricity (although the usual use of plutonium is to make atomic bombs - the normal fuel in nuclear power plants us uranium, not plutonium) but the element itself contains potential nuclear energy, not electricity. Nuclear energy can be converted into electricity. I will also note that it is can't be converted directly into electricity. It can be converted into heat, and the heat can be used to boil water to run a steam turbine which then generates electricity.
In terms of usable energy content, I am not going to give you an exact equivalence, but it is possible to create something like a 50 kiloton explosion (one equal to the explosive force of 50,000 tons of dynamite) with about 30 pounds of plutonium. So it contains a lot of energy.
Plutonium can be used as a fuel in nuclear reactors to generate heat, which is then used to create steam to drive turbines and produce electricity through a process called nuclear fission. This method harnesses the energy released during the breakdown of plutonium atoms to generate electrical power.
Uranium and plutonium are used in reactors because they are fissile materials that can undergo nuclear fission, releasing a large amount of energy. This energy is harnessed to generate electricity in nuclear power plants.
A quart of plutonium would weigh approximately 132 pounds.
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Under nuclear fission with thermal neutrons uranium release an enormous quantity of energy (202,5 MeV per one atom of 235U); the obtained heat is converted in electricity. The same answer for plutonium (excepting the energy per fission).
Electrical resistivity of plutonium at 0C: 146.10-8 ohm.meter.
platinum yes plutonium no
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Plutonium can be used as a fuel in nuclear reactors to generate heat, which is then used to create steam to drive turbines and produce electricity through a process called nuclear fission. This method harnesses the energy released during the breakdown of plutonium atoms to generate electrical power.
Applications of plutonium: * nuclear fuel in nuclear power reactors; can contribute to use uranium-238 which is fertile.Disadvantages of plutonium:- plutonium is radioactive - plutonium is toxic - plutonium is flammable - in some conditions (of mass and geometric form) plutonium can reach the critical mass
Approx. 4 000 US $ for weapon-grade plutonium.
The fission energy is transformed in heat and heat is transformed in electricity.
Plutonium is a metal because it has metallic properties such as being shiny and conducting electricity. It is also located on the periodic table in the actinide series, which consists mainly of metals. Additionally, plutonium is a dense, malleable metal that can be shaped into various forms.
Spacecraft using nuclear power use the heat energy of Plutonium-238. The heat energy of the radioactive pellet of Plutonium-238 is converted into electricity.
1 plutonium (solid) gallon = 71,337 kg
The fission energy is transformed in heat and heat is transformed in electricity
Uranium and plutonium are used in reactors because they are fissile materials that can undergo nuclear fission, releasing a large amount of energy. This energy is harnessed to generate electricity in nuclear power plants.