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 ...

In 1977, two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched toward the unknown. Nearly fifty years later, they remain alive at the edge of interstellar space, still whispering faint signals back to ...

Obtaining power from nuclear fission is one of the cleanest and most efficient ways to feed our energy-thirsty civilization; however, there is the thorny issue of what to do with the toxic, ...

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 ...

Commercial operations on the Moon won't just be round-the-clock but round-the-calendar as ispace, inc. and the University of Leicester partner to develop nuclear heaters to allow future landers and ...

Americium, a silvery-white, synthetic element, is created during nuclear reactions of heavy elements. The element and its isotopes have very few but important uses including smoke detectors found in ...

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 ...

Scientists from across several Chinese institutions have unveiled a new ultra-compact nuclear battery that has the potential to replace the existing power sources used in everyday tech. Powered by ...

Japan has embarked on a mission to create a battery system that can continuously generate electricity for a century under the extreme conditions of outer space. Long-operational, maintenance-free ...

Americium isotope Am 241 was identified by a group of researchers at the University of Chicago in 1944 and was the fourth trans-uranium element to be discovered, via successive neutron capture ...