Researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have successfully synthesized a new isotope of plutonium, plutonium-227. This discovery is highly ...

"The concentrations of plutonium activity in the cryoconite that we have observed are—especially in the Northern Hemisphere—orders of magnitude higher than in other environmental matrices used ...

Competent physicists guessed that the only substance which could denature plutonium effectively would be a nonexplosive isotope of plutonium itself. A different chemical element would not do ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Precise measurements of radioactive lanthanum isotopes revealed an unexpected increase in two-neutron separation energies when the neutron number rises from 92 to 93 ...

Japan claims that the wastewater, containing a radioactive isotope called tritium and possibly other radioactive traces, will be safe. Neighboring countries and other experts say it poses an ...