A research team led by researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has synthesized a new plutonium isotope, plutonium-227. This study was published in ...

The US Department of Energy has launched a new radiochemical separation process at the Savannah River National Laboratory to ...

Nov. 24—LOS ALAMOS — It's been decades since the U.S. Department of Energy wrapped up a cleanup of a Los Alamos canyon and declared it safe for public recreation. Starting in the 1940s, Acid Canyon ...

Together, these forces position radiopharma as a frontier of medical innovation with ripple effects across healthcare, ...

The results of the newest investigations carried out by scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN shed new light on the processes of accumulation of plutonium isotopes on glaciers of the ...

The environment and human health are adversely affected by plutonium, even in minute quantities. The isotope plutonium-244 provides clues about nucleosynthesis and neutron star mergers, so plutonium ...

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There are traces of radioactive fallout from nuclear tests conducted in the 1950s and 1960s in American honey, a new study has revealed. The presence of a radioactive isotope called cesium-137 has ...

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