Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both ...

A 24-year-old Australian man could go to jail for ten years as he prepares to plead guilty for importing plutonium from a ...

Beginning in the late 1950s, the U.S. met this challenge by developing nuclear batteries known as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and producing plutonium-238 (Pu-238 ... isotopes of a ...

Earth has been showered with gold, platinum, thorium and other heavy elements. This Star Explodes Every 80 Years. And Survives. That’s how plutonium can wind up at the bottom of the ocean.

Unlike other elements reportedly gathered by Lidden, the plutonium sparked a major hazmat alert, requiring a response from ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in January that a Japanese national had pleaded guilty to the attempted trafficking of nuclear materials, including uranium, thorium and plutonium, from ...