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After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a ...

A 24-year-old Australian man could go to jail for ten years as he prepares to plead guilty for importing plutonium from a ...

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Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both ...

A massive amount of highly radioactive nuclear waste has reached the northern German port of Nordenham, Lower Saxony. The ...

In 1902 Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy discovered that radioactive elements, such as uranium and thorium, broke down into other elements in a predictable sequence or series. This amazing ...

Scientists have developed a prototype nuclear battery using radiocarbon that could power small devices for decades without ...

For the first time, scientists have characterized a promethium coordination complex, advancing the understanding of ...

AT the beginning of this century, one of the facts most intriguing to chemists was the impossibility of concentrating some of the radioactive elements. Radium D, for example, a substance well ...

A train carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste has reached its destination in southern Germany after a 17-hour journey ...

Radioactive elements or pesticides such as DDT that are released in the environment may enter meteorological and biological cycles that distribute them and can ...