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ORNL scientist Samantha Schrell discusses plans to overcome a dwindling curium supply to keep producing californium.

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Scientists researching the origin of elements in our galaxy have new insights into how they are transported to Earth, thanks to a new study led by authors at the University of Hertfordshire in the U.K ...

Nearly 40 years have passed since the world witnessed the devastating consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Decades later, scientists are still uncovering how radioactive materials were ...

Tritium. It’s that mysterious glowing element found in air, water and now inside you. That’s right. You’re going take this ...

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After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists explored an unusual way of dealing with radioactive contamination by using plants to absorb radionuclides from the environment. Sunflowers emerged ...

Bill Gates visiting TerraPower Isotopes, the subsidiary of the nuclear power company TerraPower that he helped found. Gates recently visited the startup’s facilities in Everett, Wash. (TerraPower ...

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams opens its doors to experiments that will study the formation of heavy elements in the Universe and provide critical tests of nuclear theories. The Facility for Rare ...

After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists explored an unusual way of dealing with radioactive contamination by using plants to absorb radionuclides from the environment. Sunflowers emerged ...

Researchers at the Accelerator Laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, precisely measured atomic masses of radioactive lanthanum isotopes and found an interesting feature in their nuclear ...