Small quantities of curium-242 — the heaviest man-made element prepared and isolated so far in India — have been isolated and purified at the Radio Chemistry Division of the Bhabha Atomic Research ...
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Americium could be the tiny element that powers the next century in space
For decades, deep space exploration has depended on a handful of obscure isotopes quietly heating small nuclear batteries on robotic probes. Now a different, even less familiar element is moving to ...
Perpetual Atomics Ltd, based in the UK, and QSA Global, Inc., based in the USA, have solved a key challenge in space nuclear power: turning americium dioxide into stable, large-scale pellets via an ...
RHUs arranged in a spacecraft structure cutaway. Perpetual Atomics. QSA Global & University of Leicester at Space Park Leicester. LEICESTER, England & BURLINGTON, Mass., December 01, 2025--(BUSINESS ...
Zeno Power and Orano teams at the la Hague nuclear recycling site in France. Credit: Zeno Power TAMPA, Fla. — Zeno Power has signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Orano, a French nuclear recycler, to ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is testing a new type of nuclear battery, powered by the radioactive isotope Americium-241, which can provide power to space probes for up to ...
Chemists of the Manhattan Project were having mythology trouble. They had created two new elements, Nos. 95 and 96 (TIME, Nov. 26). But when they tried to name them, they were stumped. Uranium (No. 92 ...
DELIVERING this year's Harrison Howe Lecture on November 18 to the Rochester Section of the American Chemical Society, Prof. G. T. Seaborg referred to the importance which the newly discovered ...
Chinese scientists are leveraging americium, which has usually been written off as nuclear waste, as part of a reaction breakthrough that could work in space, at sea, and elsewhere, according to a ...
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