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... it was discovered in 1940 at the Univ. of California at Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg , Edwin M. McMillan , Joseph W. Kennedy, and Arthur C. Wahl; using a cyclotron to bombard uranium oxide with deuterons, they produced plutonium-238 ( half-life about 87 years).

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