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 ...

Russia, the U.S., and NASA each unveiled major nuclear milestones spanning reactor innovation, waste recycling, and space exploration. Russia's BN-800 fast reactor successfully completed trials ...

New transmutation trials at the BN-800 reactor show how fast neutron technology can reduce the lifespan of radioactive waste.

Scientists have created complexes with aromatic three-atom bismuth rings that are stabilised by heavy actinide atoms. These ...

For Adam Piotr Pikul of the Polish Academy of Sciences, there is always more to understand about the basic physics of uranium ...

In a world first, the team, led by Professor Stephen Liddle, discovered a new type of aromatic molecule made entirely of ...

Actinide materials comprise a class of substances made up of elements positioned in the periodic table from actinium to lawrencium. Known for their complex electronic properties and radioactivity, ...

Of the variations in the elemental abundance patterns of stars enhanced with r-process elements, the variation in the relative actinide-to-lanthanide ratio is among the most significant. We ...

Heat capacity (C p) and thermal diffusivity (α) are essential thermophysical properties that determine the thermal behavior of materials. Their temperature dependence reflects all the excitations that ...

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 ...

Separating heavy elements from one another is one of the biggest challenges of nuclear waste management. A new type of bonding between metals and ligands in actinide complexes opens new bonding ...