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 ...

Americium, a silvery-white, synthetic element, is created during nuclear reactions of heavy elements. The element and its isotopes have very few but important uses including smoke detectors found in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Israeli scientists have devised a technique to prevent plutonium produced in nuclear power plants from being used in nuclear bombs. Adding the element americium, a synthetic compound used in ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --The British government is collaborating to build the world's first-ever space battery powered by the element Americium-241. The country's National Nuclear Laboratory and the UK Space ...

Writing in Nature, Zhang et al. 1 provide a rare atomic-level glimpse of a notoriously dangerous radioactive element, americium (Am), in its highest oxidation state. The authors used a water-soluble ...

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, ...

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 ...