Construction of Dounreay began 70 years ago in March 1955. It still employs some 1400 people directly, with the focus now on ...

An Australian man described as a "science nerd" may face jail time, after attempting to collect all the elements in the ...

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

The American Chemical Society (ACS) designated the production of pluto­nium-238 as a National ... Beginning in 1960, the Savannah River Site (SRS) helped meet this challenge by making plutonium-238 to ...

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

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 million years ago. Kilonovas occur when binary neutron stars spiral closer ...

THE discovery of the elements 95 and 96 was announced on November 16, 1945, by Prof. G. T. Seaborg, of the University of California, now working at the 'Metallurgical Laboratory' of Chicago ...