Plutonium (Pu) exhibits one of the most diverse and complex chemistries of any element in the periodic table. Since its discovery in 1940, scientists have synthesized and studied many different types ...

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 ...

Space explorations cannot rely on solar power alone. Especially when it comes to the far reaches of our solar system, the Sun's rays become so diminished that solar panels are highly impractical. The ...

A collaborative effort from researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Sandia National ...

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy have "launched a new radiochemical separation process at the Savannah River National Laboratory to recover rare isotopes from Mark-18A targets produced ...

Helion Energy's fusion breakthrough promises a future of limitless, safe, and clean power by 2028. Nuclear fusion combines ...

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started operating in October 2025. The history of the Hanford Site and the way the stored ...

Can NASA and Elon Musk get us to Mars and beyond?

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Denmark's Copenhagen Atomics has signed a Letter of Intent with Rare Earths Norway to secure future access to thorium - the key fertile material in its molten salt reactor technology - extracted from ...

New Mexico has fined the US DOE $16m for failing to prioritise the removal of legacy waste from LANL for disposal at WIPP.

Many of us smelled a rat when “invitations” were sent out to residents of the area around the decommissioned and dismantled ...