Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of organometallic chemistry. They have synthesized and ...

Heavy element researchers have been keen to lock down the 15 radioactive elements in the periodic table's actinide series ...

An international team of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a new method for analyzing actinides. The method provides unique insights into the electronic ...

The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...

These ferociously radioactive materials are also sensitive ... Berkelocene is likely to be the last of the actinide-COT sandwiches, he adds, because heavier elements either are too scarce or ...

Researchers named the compound “berkelocene” because it is comparable to the compound “uranocene,” a uranium-containing ...

This research enables efficient experimental studies of actinides beyond plutonium through the novel synthesis of compounds using groups of atoms called polyoxometalate ligands. Using tiny samples ...

However, the residue from standard reprocessing leaves minor actinides — elements close to uranium in the periodic table which cannot be burned in current power reactors. Radioactive waste containing ...

One row above the actinides are the lanthanides ... But berkelium is not easy to study because it is highly radioactive. And only very minute amounts of this synthetic heavy element are produced ...

One row above the actinides are the lanthanides ... Subscribe for FREE But berkelium is not easy to study because it is highly radioactive. And only very minute amounts of this synthetic heavy element ...