An executive order signed in May of this year aims to make 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium available to U.S. power companies to be used as potential fuel for nuclear reactors, a Reuters ...

Astronomers can't see dark matter directly, but they know it's there: Its gravity shapes galaxies and the large-scale structure of the cosmos. In an effort to uncover the composition of this hidden ...

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GAO found that plutonium project at former federal nuclear weapons production site in South Carolina faced design-package ...

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The world's only mass spectrometer with 22 detectors measures uranium and plutonium isotopes simultaneously at extremely low ...

The Russian Foreign Ministry sees no threat of nuclear proliferation or radiological contamination in the situation of a U.S. citizen who removed a microscopic amount of plutonium. This was reported ...

Oxidation is the process where atoms lose electrons during a chemical reaction. Among the radioactive elements, neptunium and plutonium are much harder to oxidize than uranium. To study these elements ...

The critical point of '889 (August 9, 2028)' prophesied by Alois Irlmaier. When the 'yellow powder' rained down from swarms ...

On Thursday, NASA is expected to launch its new Mars rover, Perseverance, on a mission to search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. It’s the agency’s largest and most autonomous Martian ...