How do you find plutonium? Go to nuclear inspector school. All IAEA inspectors are trained at Los Alamos. NPR reporter Geoff Brumfiel went with one group. The plutonium can he mentions was designed by my team back in the 1990s, if it’s the one in this LANL photo. And back when I started at Los Alamos, the orientation included passing around a nickel-plated plutonium hemisphere. It was warm. Read More