Lighting the way to removing radioactive elements
A flick of a switch. An LED light shines on a liquid-filled beaker. Another flick. It goes dark.
A flick of a switch. An LED light shines on a liquid-filled beaker. Another flick. It goes dark.
Materials Science
Mar 21, 2019
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Nuclear fission is a process in which a heavy nucleus split into two. Most of the actinides nuclei (plutonium, uranium, curium, etc) fission asymmetrically with one big fragment and one small. Empirically, the heavy fragment ...
General Physics
Dec 20, 2018
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Actinides, a series of 15 radioactive elements, are vital to medicine, energy, and national defense. Scientists examined two exceedingly rare actinides, berkelium and californium. These elements are at the extreme end of ...
Materials Science
Nov 8, 2018
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A small team of researchers from the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and LPCNO, Université de Toulouse, has developed a way to synthesize a thorium-aluminum complex with an actinide element ...
The Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has enabled scientists to explore an unexpected oxidation state in the rare, radioactive element berkelium that was first observed in experiment. ...
Materials Science
May 12, 2017
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Radioactive materials have long been a part of American history—from the Manhattan Project to the development of nuclear power. The materials central to these innovations are actinides, or elements 89-103 on the periodic ...
Materials Science
Apr 19, 2016
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Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have reported a major advance in understanding the biological chemistry of radioactive metals, opening up new avenues of research into strategies for remedial ...
Materials Science
Aug 26, 2015
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(Phys.org) —Lawrence Livermore scientists have modeled actinide-based alloys, such as spent nuclear fuel, in an effort to predict the impact of evolving fuel chemistry on material performance.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 21, 2014
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(Phys.org) -- A team of DOE researchers from the Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos national laboratories and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, studying the fundamental properties of the actinide elements, has ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 10, 2012
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By using thorium instead of uranium as fuel, nuclear power could be safer and more sustainable, according to new research.
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 13, 2012
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