A team of scientists has discovered a new, stable form of plutonium – and done so by accident. The famously unstable element is tricky to transport, store and dispose of, but the find could lead to ...

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Oct. 18 (UPI) --Using the European Synchrotron, a team of physicists have identified a new stable form of plutonium. The newly discovered compound exists in a solid state and features an unexpected, ...

Something went boom in outer space and sent radioactive stardust our way, and it's just been found at the bottom of the ocean. Traces of rare forms of iron and plutonium have been found at the bottom ...

Scientists have found a new compound of plutonium with an unexpected, pentavalent oxidation state. This new phase of plutonium is solid and stable, and may be a transient phase in radioactive waste ...

A significant new chemical attribute of plutonium has been found by researchers: the identification and structural verification of the +2 oxidation state in a molecular system. Researchers at Los ...

Beaming scientists: the research team at the Rossendorf beamline at the ESRF. Kristina Kvashnina is second from the right. (Courtesy: ESRF) By accident, scientists in Germany, Russia and Sweden have ...

Expose a silvery piece of plutonium to air and it tarnishes, developing a patina that looks yellow or green, depending on the sample. For many years, scientists thought that this unpredictable film ...

Traces of rare forms of iron and plutonium have been found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, after some kind of cataclysm in outer space created this radioactive stuff and sent it raining down on ...

An international team of scientists, led by the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), have found a new compound of plutonium with an unexpected, pentavalent oxidation state, using the ESRF, the ...