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 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 ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a groundbreaking ...

Pluto fever continued with the discovery of plutoniun in 1940, following the the other radioactive elements uranium and neptunium. As technology improved, especially in the 1990s, more Pluto-sized ...

They include thorium, uranium, neptunium, plutonium and americium. Atoms of these elements have between 90 and 103 electrons, some of which can be found in their 5f orbitals.

2019 due to the detection of enriched uranium inside the school building and neptunium-237 in a U.S. Department of Energy air monitor adjacent to the school.

HB254 realigns the definition of nuclear waste with federal definitions. In 2003, the Reagan Energy Act changed the definition of nuclear weapons waste (especially from the Savanna Weapons Facility) ...

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