An undated photo capturing the Plutonium Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, with the Rio Grande valley and the Sangre de Cristo mountains in the background. (Photo courtesy of Los Alamos ...
Have you ever wondered what does a spacecraft and a pacemaker have in common? Both are powered by plutonium-238 (238 Pu), a versatile isotope, known for its ideal heating properties. Recent research ...
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US lab fires lasers at neptunium to map fuel for deep-space reactors
Lasers, heat and a notoriously tricky element are at the center of a quiet revolution in how the United States plans to power ...
HOUSTON – The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has restored a domestic plutonium-238 production capability after a three-decade lapse by processing a 50-gram sample of the ...
This article was first published by Source New Mexico. Read more at sourcenm.com. U.S. energy officials illegally neglected to study impacts to the environment in efforts to increase plutonium ...
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