This produced the intermediate neptunium-237, which was then transformed into plutonium-238. Pu-238 fueled the first RTG used in space, launched aboard the Navy TRANSIT 4A Navigational Satellite in ...
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Russia tests next-gen nuclear fuel to boost 600 MWe reactor’s efficiency, cut wasteNuclear fission reactors struggle with two key problems: poor fuel utilization and complicated radioactive waste handling. To ...
Boulder County is considering whether to continue supporting a project that would create a new trail connection on land known ...
This, as he found out, isn’t something you should do lightly, as the one he used ended up containing an interesting mix of radioactive materials, including small amounts of plutonium-239 ...
A wildlife corridor plans to connect two Superfund sites at the former Rocky Flats plutonium plant and the Rocky Mountain ...
Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...
Russia's A.I. Leypunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering has begun tests to study the neutron-physical ...
Harrison S. Brown is a nuclear chemist and geochemist who worked on ways to separate plutonium from uranium at the Manhattan Project’s Metallurgical Laboratory during the war. The techniques he helped ...
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