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, ...

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

Zeno Power and Orano teams at the la Hague nuclear recycling site in France. Credit: Zeno Power TAMPA, Fla. — Zeno Power has signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Orano, a French nuclear recycler, to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ALAMOS — Los Alamos National Laboratory is converting part of the waste stream from plutonium purification into a steady, sustainable supply of the coveted element americium, which is used for ...

The UK Space Agency and the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) – the UK’s national laboratory for nuclear fission – are to collaborate on building a UK space battery. It is described as the first space ...

Scientists in the UK have generated electricity from americium, a rare chemical element derived from plutonium that could power future space missions for up to 400 years. A team of scientists led by ...

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 ...