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radioisotope fission products were originally considered, but tantalum-182 was concluded to be most effective. Inherently, a radiological weapons stockpile requires constant operation of production reactors, to replenish the rapidly decaying weapon material. This came into conflict with the infrastructure requirements of the emerging nuclear industrial complex, which was demanding all US production reactor capacity for plutonium, but especially the short half-life

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