For decades, deep space exploration has depended on a handful of obscure isotopes quietly heating small nuclear batteries on ...

This week's element is americium, which has the atomic symbol Am and the atomic number, 95. This element was named for the continent, North America (or the country, the United States of America, ...

An electrical kick is all it takes to isolate one hazardous element from the rest of a nuclear power plant’s toxic waste. New research published in the Nov. 6 Science demonstrates how to chemically ...

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, ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --The British government is collaborating to build the world's first-ever space battery powered by the element Americium-241. The country's National Nuclear Laboratory and the UK Space ...

The UK Space Agency and the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) – the UK’s national laboratory for nuclear fission – are to collaborate on building a UK space battery. It is described as the first space ...

Four Russian institutes have successfully conducted an experiment on the isolation and separation of americium and curium from used nuclear fuel. In a statement today, Russian nuclear fuel ...

Scientists can remove americium from nuclear waste to make it safer pidjoe/iStock A new way to make nuclear waste safer has been developed. The technique aims to remove americium from waste, one of ...

Israeli scientists have devised a technique to prevent plutonium produced in nuclear power plants from being used in nuclear bombs. Adding the element americium, a synthetic compound used 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 ...