Zeno Power says it has raised $50 million in funding to boost the development of nuclear batteries for maritime and space applications.

The researchers are developing heat sources powered by americium-241 – an alternative to the plutonium-238 heat sources traditionally used in spaceflight. According to a Los Alamos National ...

Colorado reported that just east of the site boundary levels of radioactive plutonium 239 and americium 241 ranged “up to hundreds of times that from nuclear tests.” In 1969, a highly visible fire at ...

Amended Record of Decision: Idaho High-Level Waste and Facilities Disposition Final Environmental Impact Statement (DOE/EIS-0287), December 21, 2009. https://www ...

McCluskey, who was working inside a glove box at the time, inhaled a staggering amount of americium-241, a radioactive byproduct of plutonium, estimated to be 500 times the occupational safety ...

Am-241 has a half-life of 432.2 years ... Other uses for americium include logging applications, nuclear propulsion and possibly as a neutralizing agent in plutonium reactor fuel rods to make the fuel ...

loaded the BN-800 with lead-test assemblies of uranium-plutonium MOX fuel that also contain minor actinides, americium-241 and neptunium-237, which it noted are “the most radiotoxic and long ...

“A true win-win.” The chromatography process shown here extracts americium-241 from a waste product stream as part of the Lab’s plutonium purification process, which uses chemical extraction ...

When Pu-240 captures a neutron, it most often turns into Pu-241. On the off chance it does ... “The PFBR uses plutonium recovered from CANDU spent fuel and so will contain ample quantities ...