Russia wishes to mine uranium in Niger, a top source of the radioactive metal ruled by a military junta friendly to the Kremlin, Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev has said.

The price of rhodium has been skyrocketing in recent years, which was around Rs 12,416 per gram in 2024. It is used in ...

The plutonium, a radioactive metal that is a byproduct of nuclear energy, has the potential to be reprocessed into fuels for certain kinds of reactors, including the small-scale advanced modular ...

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "Crystals from radioactive metal actinium." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 15 July 2024. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 07 / 240715103544.htm>.

At the same time, uranium-233, the primary fission material produced from thorium, is harder to use for weapons purposes than uranium-235 or plutonium-239. This means there is less of a risk its ...

Scientists from the University of Manchester and Los Alamos National Laboratory have reported the first-ever plutonium carbenes (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c12719) . Besides being ...

A 10-centimeter cube of the metal weighs around 20 kilograms, giving it virtually unstoppable momentum and, when alloyed with small amounts of titanium, DU acquires steel-like strength.

The earlier estimate was based on calculations derived from the amount of plutonium North Korea was believed to possess -- about seven to 11 kilograms -- and the new estimate essentially reflects ...

The radioactive decay time of thorium is just 300 years, compared to 300,000 for uranium. And according to Transmutex, its system would produce much smaller amounts of this hazardous waste.

With four molecular “claws,” and two binding sites per claw, HOPO 14-1 can grab a target radioactive metal in eight locations, securing it tightly, and send it to the bowel for elimination in ...