Many atomic nuclei have a magnetic field similar to that of Earth. However, directly at the surface of a heavy nucleus such ...

Heavy actinides—elements at the bottom of the periodic table, after plutonium—are radioactive, rare and chemically complex, ...

Not only are they concerned about the slow pace, they say the corps is leaving behind nearly three times more radioactive isotopes, or nuclear byproducts, than the Department of Energy deems safe.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers faces tough questions from community members about the extent of contamination in St. Louis suburbs linked to Manhattan Project activities. Outsiders are moving ...

China has ample storage facilities for both low-level and high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power generation and is pushing ahead with research into deep geological disposal for the latter ...

A collaboration of US-based researchers has turned to the PROSPECT-I detector at ORNL in search of the elusive sterile ...

And, unbelievably, today is the 39th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when radioactive isotopes, caesium-137 and strontium-90, were released into the atmosphere from a power plant on ...

Radioactive elements or pesticides such as DDT that are released in the environment may enter meteorological and biological cycles that distribute them and can ...

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