Nuclear fission has powered our world and medical advancements for decades. What exactly happens when an atom's nucleus splits into two parts?

TSCR is the initial demonstration of the Low-Activity Waste Pretreatment System’s capability to remove radioactive cesium and solids from low-activity, liquid tank waste prior to immobilization in ...

Quantum computers hold the promise to emulate complex materials, helping researchers better understand the physical properties that arise from interacting atoms and electrons. This may one day ...

The Hanford site in Eastern Washington near Richland was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce nearly two-thirds of the plutonium ... plan and optimize liquid waste cleanup ...

Correlated vibrational spectroscopy (CVS), can finally reveal what factors make the hydrogen-bond networks in water such a strong and mysterious force. The hydrogen bonds that form water molecules ...

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Japan’s plutonium stockpiles in Britain and France totaled 21.8 tons and 15.4 tons, respectively, as of December 2020. Britain shut down its only M OX plant in 2011, which means it can no longer ...

Interesting Engineering reported that the scientists tested liquid plutonium oxide, or PuO2, in temperatures as hot as 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 degrees Fahrenheit) to see how it would react in extreme ...

The DF-5 ballistic missile was China’s first-generation nuclear weapon with a liquid-fueled missile and the first-generation thermonuclear warhead with a solid core primary. Today’s DF-31AG missile, ...