“We solved the structure of liquid plutonium oxide and found that some covalent bonding was indeed present,” said Argonne ...
“Plutonium-227 is the 39th new isotope discovered ... separator known as the Spectrometer for Heavy Atoms and Nuclear ...
Beginning in the late 1950s, the U.S. met this challenge by developing nuclear batteries known as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and producing plutonium-238 (Pu-238) as their fuel, ...
Plutonium is currently stored at Sellafield ... It would then be placed in an underground structure called a geological disposal facility (GDF), which is yet to be built. The government said ...
The UK government has announced that the country's stockpile of some 140 tonnes of civil plutonium - currently stored at the Sellafield site in Cumbria - will be immobilised and eventually disposed of ...