Scientists at IFJ PAN discovered significant differences in plutonium isotope accumulation between hemispheres, with unique ...

Researchers may have found a way to create a new superheavy element, known as "element 120," which would be so hefty that it ...

But apart from military uses like this, plutonium also has one of the richest chemistries of any element. There are six different forms of plutonium, known as allotropes, that all exist at different ...

The proposed plutonium pit facility at Savannah River Site will reconstruct a massive 500-room partially completely abandoned ...

In 1941, after Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley produced element 94, plutonium, Seaborg was promptly recruited to the Manhattan Project—Flerov was right.

This discovery is highly important for nuclear physics, particularly regarding transuranium elements, those beyond uranium on ...

That happens when the element emits radiation (such as alpha particles ... Next, the nuclear reaction products were chemically separated by means of the plutonium-uranium extraction (PUREX) process.

On this day in 1940, the element plutonium was first isolated by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. Here’s a quiz on it.

The UK government will dispose of 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium at Sellafield for permanent geological storage.

You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. We're so familiar with uranium and plutonium that it's easy to miss that ...