Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia have confirmed plutonium levels in sediment up to 4,500 times ...

Plutonium (Pu) dioxide particles were produced from certified reference material (CRM) 136 solution (CRM 136—plutonium isotopic standard, New Brunswick Laboratory, Argonne, IL, U.S.A., 1987) using an ...

In a basic radioisotope thermoelectric generator, you have a container of plutonium-238, stored in the form of plutonium-dioxide, often in a solid ceramic state that provides extra safety in the event ...

In a basic radioisotope thermoelectric generator, you have a container of plutonium-238, stored in the form of plutonium-dioxide, often in a solid ceramic state that provides extra safety in the ...

In a basic radioisotope thermoelectric generator, you have a container of plutonium-238, stored in the form of plutonium-dioxide, often in a solid ceramic state that provides extra safety in the ...

“Either a pulp containing solid plutonium compounds or a powder of plutonium dioxide is loaded into the device with a screw dispenser. They are mixed in a certain proportion with nitric acid and a ...

Unit 4 of the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant in Russia will be completely switched to uranium-plutonium MOX fuel in 2022, marking an important step towards closing the nuclear fuel cycle, Russia’s ...

Plutonium storage at Sellafield in 2019 (Image: Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) The report, Managing the UK plutonium stockpile: No easy choices, says that over the past six decades the UK has ...

Thomas Gouder and colleagues are using X-ray photoemission spectroscopy and other techniques to investigate the adsorption of water ice on the surface of plutonium-dioxide (PuO2) thin-films.

Plutonium dioxide can then be reduced to metallic plutonium, for example by heating it with powdered aluminum.

UK Dalton Institute looks at ways to manage plutonium The UK-based Dalton Nuclear Institute at the University of Manchester looking at whether the UK plutonium stockpile should become waste or energy.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, subject of a new film, and the lab at Los Alamos loom large in the story of the atomic bomb. But Hanford, WA, was as crucial.