This was a surprise as the half-life for that particular xenon was a half-life of 18 billion trillion years. That’s more than ...

Discovery of 257Sg and its K-isomer reveals new insights into superheavy element fission and quantum stability mechanisms.

Advanced centrifuges such as the IR-9 drive up the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation significantly. Fortunately, the ...

We all know uranium is a pretty heavy metal which is found naturally under the earth's surface. The most common form of the ...

The US attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities has ignited numerous grave concerns. It also highlights the double-edged nature of ...

More common than gold, uranium is abundant on Earth. But less than one percent of the naturally occurring element is useful ...

Destroying Iran's stores of enriched uranium would bring danger for people nearby but not trigger another Chernobyl.

Uranium enrichment sites are used to build up supplies of a particular type - or isotope - of uranium. "When you dig uranium out of the ground, it comes in two forms: 99.3% is uranium-238 - and 0.7%, ...

"When you dig uranium out of the ground, it comes in two forms: 99.3% is uranium-238 - and 0.7%, or about one atom in 150, is uranium-235, and this is what you need to work in your nuclear reactor ...

The radioactive decay of plutonium-238 releases enough energy that it can glow red from its own heat, and it is this powerful heat that is the energy source to power an RTG. The nuclear heat source ...

When the plutonium-238, which starts with 94 protons, releases an alpha particle, it loses two protons and turns into uranium-234, which has 92 protons.