Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both ...

The battery is expected to be used in probes that operate in places where solar power generation is not possible.

People who live in the Columbia Basin near the Hanford site have joked about the myth of glowing in the dark. But in the ...

France’s Framatome and UK start-up Perpetual Atomics, a spin out for the University of Leicester, have signed a Memorandum ...

A wildlife corridor plans to connect two Superfund sites at the former Rocky Flats plutonium plant and the Rocky Mountain ...

Since it was first synthesized in a post-WW2 American lab in 1949, berkelium has been a rebel of the periodic table, defying ...

Back to elements for a moment, John Greenway of Wentworth Falls notes, “I’m sure this letter is one of hundreds pointing out the omission of germanium, named for Germany, and americium, named for the ...

An international team of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a new method for analyzing actinides. The method provides unique insights into the electronic ...

According to the agency, radioactive materials, such as europium and americium, which are produced by the fission reaction of uranium, were also found. The debris measures around 9 millimeters by ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of organometallic chemistry. They have synthesized and ...

Unlike natural uranium, the reprocessed uranium contained anthropogenic (man-made) radionuclides including the uranium isotope U-236, small amounts of transuranics (elements heavier than uranium, such ...