Neptunium, an actinide metal, sits next to uranium in the periodic table with an atomic number of 93; almost self-evidently, ...

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 ...

The investigational compound is called HOPO 14-1, a chelating agent that has a high affinity for metals in the actinide series, which includes plutonium, uranium, thorium, and cerium curium.

HFIR fulfilled Seaborg’s vision of a “very high flux reactor,” meaning a reactor that can strike a target material, called an actinide, with an intense stream of neutrons – that is ...

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 ...

To create element 117, JINR, which was using its accelerator to bombard actinide targets with a beam of calcium ions, needed a target made of berkelium. The High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at ORNL ...

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When the last member of the actinide series, element 103 or lawrencium, was discovered, I was at school doing my A-levels, and I remember reading about it in the magazine Scientific American. The ...

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By efficiently removing the actinide elements from used fuel and incorporating them into fast-reactor fuel, we can dramatically reduce the time that the remaining waste must be isolated from the ...

While her main focus is undergraduate teaching, her research interests include superconductivity and magnetism in lanthanide and actinide compounds. She has past experience with crystal growth and ...

Carolyn Krause presents the second part of the three-part series on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's role in the discovery of elements in the periodic table. Many of them have been synthesized ...