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 ...

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A schematic depicting a complexed americium atom inside a silver nanocage. The image depicts reduced americium-oxygen orbital overlap within the silver nanocage. Americium trapped inside a silver ...

Molecular compounds with heavy elements, like americium, curium and others can now be synthesized in a streamlined and efficient way thanks to a new technique developed by Lawrence Livermore National ...

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 ...

An electrical kick is all it takes to isolate one hazardous element from the rest of a nuclear power plant’s toxic waste. New research published in the Nov. 6 Science demonstrates how to chemically ...

Four Russian institutes have successfully conducted an experiment on the isolation and separation of americium and curium from used nuclear fuel. In a statement today, Russian nuclear fuel ...

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 ...

Made under a cloak of wartime secrecy, yet announced in the most public of ways — a radioactive element that governments insist we take into our homes. Ben Still explains how element 95 is one of real ...

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 ...

Last summer, when more than 8 million trillion calcium ions blasted a thin film of americium atoms nonstop for more than a month, the collisions generated four atoms of never-before-seen element 115, ...