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, ...

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 ...

Nuclear Space Batteries: NASA is developing a new nuclear battery using americium-241 that could last up to 433 years, far ...

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

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 ...

Spacecraft have used a plutonium isotope to stay afloat for decades, but another isotope could last even longer.

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 ...

Among the many science toys that have fallen out of fashion since we started getting nervous around things like mercury, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and radiation is the spinthariscope, which let people ...