An upcoming Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander will transport a new radioisotope heater unit to the Moon, meant to make the ...

Americium 241: the element hiding in plain sight Americium has been part of daily life for years, quietly embedded in ionization smoke detectors, but only recently has it been treated as a serious ...

A byproduct of aging nuclear weapons stockpiles could help power spacecraft on missions lasting decades. Americium-241, an isotope that can be separated from aged plutonium, is being studied as a ...

Zeno Power and Orano teams at the la Hague nuclear recycling site in France. Credit: Zeno Power TAMPA, Fla. — Zeno Power has signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Orano, a French nuclear recycler, to ...

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This is an interesting little story of the dangers that we associate with radioactivity. There's a certain form of radioactive metal that is widely used throughout the world. Out in the real world ...

This week's element is americium, which has the atomic symbol Am and the atomic number, 95. This element was named for the continent, North America (or the country, the United States of America, ...

Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and californium. Understanding how these elements bond with other atoms (known as ...

LEICESTER, England & BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a landmark achievement for international space exploration, Perpetual Atomics, QSA Global, Inc. and the University of Leicester have ...

The UK's National Nuclear Laboratory and University of Leicester have generated usable electricity from the chemical element americium in what it believes to be a global first. The achievement is seen ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --The British government is collaborating to build the world's first-ever space battery powered by the element Americium-241. The country's National Nuclear Laboratory and the UK Space ...