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Replying to critique of his warnings on Bushehr's spent fuel, Henry Sokolski argues that Tehran-based dismissals fail to ...

Plutonium is one of the most complex elements in the periodic table. First synthesized and isolated in 1940 by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, plutonium has been studied closely ...

When you think of efforts to pare down the world’s nuclear weapons stockpiles, maybe you imagine heads of state and uniformed generals sternly staring down their military rivals across a huge table.

Plutonium can be used to make nuclear bombs. But it can also be recycled and used as a fuel in nuclear reactors. According to the authors of a Nature editorial, the UK—which has the largest civilian ...

In the mid-1990s, an ambitious program was announced that would dispose of 100 tons of plutonium either by burning it as fuel or otherwise rendering it useless. One goal of the pr ...

Found in nuclear fuel and nuclear weapons, plutonium is an incredibly complex element that has far-ranging energy, security, and environmental effects. To understand plutonium, scientists at Pacific ...

This week's chemical element is plutonium, which has the symbol Pu and the atomic number 94. Inspired by the previous two elements in the periodic table, uranium and neptunium, plutonium's name came ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...