Creating plutonium-227. Plutonium-227 is unique because it is “a very neutron-deficient plutonium isotope.” To create this rare isotope, the research team, led by Prof. Gan Zaiguo, used the ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

A research team led by researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has synthesized a new plutonium isotope, plutonium-227. Their study is ...

A research team led by researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has synthesized a new plutonium isotope, plutonium-227.

The levels of radioactive plutonium around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant aren’t much higher than the amount of plutonium remaining in the environment from Cold War-era nuclear ...

Plutonium's most stable isotope, plutonium-244, can last a long time. It has a half-life of about 82 million years and decays into uranium-240 through alpha decay, according to the Jefferson Lab.

It’s a radioactive isotope, Jim Kaste explains, a relic of the atom bomb tests of the Cold War. And there is a good chance that your delectable honey contains detectable amounts of the stuff. Kaste ...

Nuclear weapon states have experimented with assorted isotopes of plutonium since the start of the atomic age but have found little of the 244 isotope on Earth. Dr.

Members of The Radioactive Orchestra listened to hundreds of isotopes to find those that were artistically pleasing -- in some cases, as with the Cobalt-60 isotope, using an actual gamma spectra ...

Radioactive isotopes emit beta or gamma radiation, or both. (Only a very few artificially made radioactive isotopes emit alpha particles, and these need not be considered here.) ...