Since it was first synthesized in a post-WW2 American lab in 1949, berkelium has been a rebel of the periodic table, defying ...

A wildlife corridor plans to connect two Superfund sites at the former Rocky Flats plutonium plant and the Rocky Mountain ...

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical. Using a ...

A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...

Glenn Danzig is making it known that he’s not down with faux “farewell” tours. The metal singer, 69, from Lodi, made it known ...

The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...

Researchers named the compound “berkelocene” because it is comparable to the compound “uranocene,” a uranium-containing ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part three in a four-part series. Read part one here ...

An energy company in New Brunswick says it has developed technology that can recycle dangerous nuclear waste to generate new energy.

Chubu Electric Power Co has begun dismantling the reactor at unit 2 of its Hamaoka NPP in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture – ...

To hear Stan Lee tell it, the X-Men came to be precisely because he was tired of making up origin stories. Instead of ...