Lætitia H. Delmau received the 2024 Seaborg Actinide Separations Award for her contributions to actinide separations.

Lætitia H. Delmau, a distinguished researcher and radiochemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the 2024 Glenn ...

Now, Chemical Engineering Asst. Prof. Stephen T. Lam and researchers from MIT and Stony Brook University are working to ...

Scientists have discovered the elusive properties hidden within promethium, a rare earth element that has remained largely ...

Scientists have uncovered the properties of a rare earth element that was first discovered 80 years ago at the very same ...

Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Stephen Lam of UMass Lowell (UML) and researchers from MIT and Stony Brook ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester have managed to successfully make actinide metals form molecular actinide-actinide bonds for the first time, opening up a new field of scientific study in ...

Where actinide-element multiple bonding is concerned, there is much interest in exploiting understanding of chemical bonding (covalency) in extraction studies, because this could inform attempts to ...

Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in understanding the properties of promethium, a rare earth element with ...

Neptunium, an actinide metal, sits next to uranium in the periodic table with an atomic number of 93; almost self-evidently, its name derives from the planet beyond Uranus in the solar system ...

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Over time the build-up of those transuranic and actinide isotopes ‘pollute’ the fuel in an LWR to the point where the nuclear chain reaction is far less efficient than with ‘fresh’ fuel rods.