“The newly discovered plutonium-227 is still seven neutrons away from the magic number of 126. To study the robustness of the ...

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) as their fuel, ...

They confiscated plutonium and depleted uranium in decorative vials and polymer cubes that Lidden kept by his bedside after buying from a US science collectables website to complete a real-life ...

Previously, IAEA Director General claimed that some 30 tonnes of plutonium and 40 tonnes of enriched uranium are stored at Zaporozhye nuclear power plant KIEV, May 27. /TASS/. The State Nuclear ...