Officials from General Electric might get their hands on a multibillion pound project developed in the UK. The major company intends to build plutonium reactors at Sellafield, meant to provide enough power to 750,000 average homes.
To do so, the power plant would exploit the benefits of plutonium, a residual compou... |
1 December 2011
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Years ago, NASA mission controllers managing the Pioneer spacecraft detected a faint anomaly in the telemetry data the probes were relaying back to Earth. It appeared as if they were drifting slightly off course, although no clear reasons for these events were made obvious. A new study clears the mystery.Investigator... |
27 July 2011
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Excess plutonium produced in large nuclear reactors has been a nuisance to get rid of or conceal ever since the first batches were produced in the 1940s. It degrades over many years and needs special storage conditions so as not to influence the soil it's buried in. Now, researchers at the Ben-Gurion University ... |
5 March 2009
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The city of Hanford, in Washington State, houses the oldest nuclear processing sites, and is now known as the place where weapons-grade plutonium was found lying around the dump site, enclosed only in a very shaky safe box. The find, besides eliminating a threat, also completes a piece of history, as the sample now c... |
21 January 2009
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During nuclear fission reactions nuclear power plants produce a by-product element known as plutonium, which accumulates on the uranium fuel rods. Plutonium cannot occur naturally on Earth and is extremely important for the fabrication of nuclear bombs because it is used in the detonation mechanism initiating the nuc... |
9 May 2008
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Nuclear waste is remnant radioactive material resulted from the nuclear weapons program, or from processing in the nuclear power plants, which cannot be further used for other industrial activities. It is usually extremely radioactive, and has half life time in the range of millions of years, thus a solution must be ... |
28 November 2007
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Curium (Cm) is a strange element, a heavy actinide that behaves strangely under extreme pressure. Now, a new study provides a better understanding of how the crystal structure of some metals becomes stable through magnetism.It's a synthetic radioactive metallic transuranic element of the actinide series, produc... |
7 June 2007
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Ununbium (Uub) is the 112th element of the periodic table, often alternatively called eka-mercury and a systematic temporary element, part of the superheavy elements called transactinides.Usually, researchers have a hard time catching the slightest glimpse of the superheavy elements at the far edge of the periodic ... |
4 May 2007
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Plutonium is a radioactive, metallic chemical element, and has been called "the most complex metal" and "a physicist's dream but an engineer's nightmare" for its peculiar physical and chemical properties.It is the element used in most modern nuclear weapons and power plants, and contrary to popular beliefs... |
5 April 2007
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