NASA spacecraft has used a plutonium isotope to stay afloat for decades, but americium-241 could last even longer.
Russia's REMIX fuel is turning spent nuclear material into a sustainable resource for conventional VVER-1000 reactors.
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s deputy administrator for defense programs argued in a memo this month that Los Alamos National Laboratory should increase its annual production of ...
UK pressure vessel manufacturer LTi Metaltech Ltd has been awarded a contract worth more than GBP45 million (USD60 million) by Sellafield Ltd to manufacture and supply containers for use in Sellafield ...
Cans of plutonium residue stored at the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, England (Image credit: UK.Gov) The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group has processed a can of plutonium ...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - A packed and at times tense community meeting in San Francisco’s Hunters Point on Monday drew frustration from residents after learning the U.S. Navy waited 11 months to alert ...
A small button from an ionization-type smoke detector containing 1 microcurie (141 nanograms) of americium-241 dioxide.Andrew Magill /Wikimedia Commons In 1977, two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 ...
Local health officials are asking the U.S. Navy why they were not warned about elevated radiation levels detected in the city last year. San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Susan Philip said plutonium ...
The San Francisco Health Department is sounding the alarm over high levels of radioactive plutonium-239 (Pu-239) detected in the air in Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Plutonium 239 is a radioactive ...
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