Spacecraft have used a plutonium isotope to stay afloat for decades, but another isotope could last even longer.

This is an interesting little story of the dangers that we associate with radioactivity. There's a certain form of radioactive metal that is widely used throughout the world. Out in the real world ...

Americium isotope Am 241 was identified by a group of researchers at the University of Chicago in 1944 and was the fourth trans-uranium element to be discovered, via successive neutron capture ...

Japan has embarked on a mission to create a battery system that can continuously generate electricity for a century under the extreme conditions of outer space. Long-operational, maintenance-free ...

THE distribution of plutonium in blood serum proteins has been investigated previously 1–3. Normally, americium-241 is present in plutonium samples, and is produced there by the β-decay of ...

Professor Richard Ambrosi, Perpetual Atomics Chief Scientific Officer, and Charles Brachon, Orano Recycling Strategic Development Manager – Radioisotope-Based Activities, concluded the americium-241 ...

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 ...

If you need to send something far from a recharge outlet, then you’re going need a nuclear battery. These long-running power sources come in all shapes and sizes, and have many different methods for ...

Scientists from across several Chinese institutions have unveiled a new ultra-compact nuclear battery that has the potential to replace the existing power sources used in everyday tech. Powered by ...

THE neutron yields from two americium – beryllium alloys have been measured. The alloys were prepared by the reduction of americium trifluoride with powdered beryllium metal in vacuum, according to ...

Among the many science toys that have fallen out of fashion since we started getting nervous around things like mercury, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and radiation is the spinthariscope, which let people ...