In 1977, two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched toward the unknown. Nearly fifty years later, they remain alive at the edge of interstellar space, still whispering faint signals back to ...

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Americium 241: the element hiding in plain sight Americium has been part of daily life for years, quietly embedded in ionization smoke detectors, but only recently has it been treated as a serious ...

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 ...

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 ...

LEICESTER, England & BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a landmark achievement for international space exploration, Perpetual Atomics, QSA Global, Inc. and the University of Leicester have ...

Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and californium. Understanding how these elements bond with other atoms (known as ...

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 ...

Born out of ENDURE, a European Space Agency (ESA) project, and part of a transatlantic collaboration, this achievement provides the steppingstones for an industrial pathway to deliver radioisotope ...