Since the first nuclear explosion in history during the Trinity test in 1945, nuclear weapons have significantly shaped the ...
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a groundbreaking ...
Pike County residents are no strangers to concerns about nuclear contamination. For decades, the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant has been a focal point of radiation exposure ...
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 IAEA also estimated in its quarterly report that as of Feb. 8, Iran’s overall stockpile of enriched uranium stands at 8,294.4 kilograms (18,286 pounds), which represents an increase of 1,690 ...
The actinides include 14 metallic elements in the periodic system. They include thorium, uranium, neptunium, plutonium and americium. Atoms of these elements have between 90 and 103 electrons ...