Three trial uranium-plutonium MOX fuel assemblies containing americium-241 and neptunium-237 have completed three fuel ...

Ever since the Manhattan project in World War II, actinide chemistry has been essential for nuclear science and technology. Yet scientists still seek the ability to interpret and predict chemical and ...

Organometallic chemistry of the actinide metals thorium and uranium has been undergoing a revival of sorts lately. This renewed interest is being sparked by a desire to better understand their ...

Oct. 11, 1939. Europe is at war, and US president Franklin D. Roosevelt has just received a fateful letter from Albert Einstein. Noting that “the element uranium may be turned into a new and important ...

Scientists have synthesized tetrafluoride powders of four radioactive elements—thorium, uranium, neptunium, and plutonium. These four elements are actinides, a series of heavy and radioactive elements ...

Scientists have managed to successfully make a transuranium complex where the central metal, here neptunium, forms a multiple bond to just one other element. Enabling study of such a bonding ...

UV-Visible-NIR microspectroscopy brings together high-spatial resolution microscopy and spectroscopy across the ultraviolet (UV), visible, and near-infrared (NIR) spectral regions. This technique is a ...

First actinide inverse-sandwich complexes containing a cyclo‑Bi₃³⁻ ring (diuranium and dithorium).Definitive aromatic ...

The application of ionic liquids in the field of actinide and lanthanide chemistry has attracted considerable attention due to their unique properties, such as low volatility, enhanced thermal ...

Actinide materials comprise a class of substances made up of elements positioned in the periodic table from actinium to lawrencium. Known for their complex electronic properties and radioactivity, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tucked away in a stellar graveyard known as the Gaia Sausage, scientists have discovered a cosmic oddity with a potentially huge ...