This is an interesting little story of the dangers that we associate with radioactivity. There's a certain form of radioactive metal that is widely used throughout the world. Out in the real world ...

Americium isotope Am 241 was identified by a group of researchers at the University of Chicago in 1944 and was the fourth trans-uranium element to be discovered, via successive neutron capture ...

Professor Richard Ambrosi, Perpetual Atomics Chief Scientific Officer, and Charles Brachon, Orano Recycling Strategic Development Manager – Radioisotope-Based Activities, concluded the americium-241 ...

Obtaining power from nuclear fission is one of the cleanest and most efficient ways to feed our energy-thirsty civilization; however, there is the thorny issue of what to do with the toxic, ...

A team of scientists and engineers from the University of Leicester and NASA Glenn Research Center is developing a new nuclear power system for space. Last year, the university signed an International ...

THE distribution of plutonium in blood serum proteins has been investigated previously 1–3. Normally, americium-241 is present in plutonium samples, and is produced there by the β-decay of ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --The British government is collaborating to build the world's first-ever space battery powered by the element Americium-241. The country's National Nuclear Laboratory and the UK Space ...

Four Russian institutes have successfully conducted an experiment on the isolation and separation of americium and curium from used nuclear fuel. In a statement today, Russian nuclear fuel ...

Israeli scientists have devised a technique to prevent plutonium produced in nuclear power plants from being used in nuclear bombs. Adding the element americium, a synthetic compound used in ...

Americium-241 from Orano's spent nuclear fuel recycling process will create steady, long-lasting energy in Perpetual Atomics' radioisotope power systems for scientific, commercial, and exploration ...

Scientists can remove americium from nuclear waste to make it safer pidjoe/iStock A new way to make nuclear waste safer has been developed. The technique aims to remove americium from waste, one of ...