This is an interesting little story of the dangers that we associate with radioactivity. There's a certain form of radioactive metal that is widely used throughout the world. Out in the real world ...

LOS ALAMOS — Los Alamos National Laboratory is converting part of the waste stream from plutonium purification into a steady, sustainable supply of the coveted element americium, which is used for ...

Obtaining power from nuclear fission is one of the cleanest and most efficient ways to feed our energy-thirsty civilization; however, there is the thorny issue of what to do with the toxic, ...

For decades, deep space exploration has depended on a handful of obscure isotopes quietly heating small nuclear batteries on robotic probes. Now a different, even less familiar element is moving to ...

Zeno Power and Orano teams at the la Hague nuclear recycling site in France. Credit: Zeno Power TAMPA, Fla. — Zeno Power has signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Orano, a French nuclear recycler, to ...

Commercial operations on the Moon won't just be round-the-clock but round-the-calendar as ispace, inc. and the University of Leicester partner to develop nuclear heaters to allow future landers and ...

Professor Richard Ambrosi, Perpetual Atomics Chief Scientific Officer, and Charles Brachon, Orano Recycling Strategic Development Manager – Radioisotope-Based Activities, concluded the americium-241 ...

The UK's National Nuclear Laboratory and University of Leicester have generated usable electricity from the chemical element americium in what it believes to be a global first. The achievement is seen ...

Americium isotope Am 241 was identified by a group of researchers at the University of Chicago in 1944 and was the fourth trans-uranium element to be discovered, via successive neutron capture ...