As China expands its nuclear energy infrastructure and increases its power capacity, the demand for uranium also rises. In ...

Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both ...

Uranium (chemical symbol U) is a naturally occurring radioactive element. In its pure form it is a silver-coloured heavy metal, similar to lead, cadmium and tungsten. Like tungsten it is very dense, ...

A chemical engineering professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute has received an $800,000 award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to study the recovery of critical minerals like uranium from ...

Uranium is a silvery-white metallic chemical element found in nature, primarily in uranium ore deposits. It serves as a vital commodity in the nuclear energy industry, where it is used as fuel for ...

For many years, the Heavy Element Chemistry group in Berkeley Lab's Chemical Sciences Division ... because its structure is analogous to a uranium organometallic complex called "uranocene." ...

Isotopes of the two elements-as yet nameless, apparently owing to lack of 'transplutonic' planets-have been produced by bombarding uranium 238 ... has been made for chemical studies by tracer ...