“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, ...

Plutonium is currently stored at Sellafield in a powder form but needs to be processed before it is disposed of A multibillion-pound plant to process plutonium is expected to bring thousands of ...

It was designed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. A sphere shell of plutonium the size of a bowling ball, a plutonium pit is a key part of a nuclear warhead, according to ...

140 tonnes of plutonium is currently being stored at Sellafield, the nuclear site in Cumbria The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a ...

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 ...

The UK government has announced that the country's stockpile of some 140 tonnes of civil plutonium - currently stored at the Sellafield site in Cumbria - will be immobilised and eventually disposed of ...