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Plutonium-238 has a half-life of 88 years and emits alpha particles. It is a heat source in radioisotope thermoelectric generators, which are used to power some spacecraft.
Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945, a uranium fission bomb was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb, called Little Boy was a  gun-type  device which used an explosive charge to force two sub-critical masses of U-235 together.lutonium Bomb. Plutonium-239 is a fissionable isotope and can be used to make a nuclear fission bomb similar to that produced with uranium-235. The bomb which was dropped at Nagasaki was a plutonium bomb. Not enough Pu-239 exists in nature to make a major weapons supply, but it is easily produced in breeder reactors.