The American Chemical Society (ACS) designated the production of pluto ... Beginning in 1960, the Savannah River Site (SRS) helped meet this challenge by making plutonium-238 to fuel radioisotope ...

So in this sense plutonium is its own worst enemy. Its radioactivity means that it's very difficult to exploit the richness of its chemistry in many compounds, and as its reputation precedes it, ...

The team of Argonne chemical engineers and physicists ... published the results of their experiment, "Plutonium oxide melt ...