Three trial uranium-plutonium MOX fuel assemblies containing americium-241 and neptunium-237 have completed three fuel ...

Ever since the Manhattan project in World War II, actinide chemistry has been essential for nuclear science and technology. Yet scientists still seek the ability to interpret and predict chemical and ...

The application of ionic liquids in the field of actinide and lanthanide chemistry has attracted considerable attention due to their unique properties, such as low volatility, enhanced thermal ...

Scientists have managed to successfully make a transuranium complex where the central metal, here neptunium, forms a multiple bond to just one other element. Enabling study of such a bonding ...

Scientists have synthesized tetrafluoride powders of four radioactive elements—thorium, uranium, neptunium, and plutonium. These four elements are actinides, a series of heavy and radioactive elements ...

Organometallic chemistry of the actinide metals thorium and uranium has been undergoing a revival of sorts lately. This renewed interest is being sparked by a desire to better understand their ...

UV-Visible-NIR microspectroscopy brings together high-spatial resolution microscopy and spectroscopy across the ultraviolet (UV), visible, and near-infrared (NIR) spectral regions. This technique is a ...

BOSTON – Ever since the Manhattan project in World War II, actinide chemistry has been essential for nuclear science and technology. Yet scientists still seek the ability to interpret and predict ...

Russia’s BN-800 fast reactor has successfully burned minor actinide fuel, marking a milestone in reducing long-lived nuclear waste, while a Utah University project will use a research reactor to power ...

First actinide inverse-sandwich complexes containing a cyclo‑Bi₃³⁻ ring (diuranium and dithorium).Definitive aromatic ...

Oct. 11, 1939. Europe is at war, and US president Franklin D. Roosevelt has just received a fateful letter from Albert Einstein. Noting that “the element uranium may be turned into a new and important ...