Plutonium enters the body by breathing in contaminated air or swallowing contaminated food or water. Once inside, plutonium particles tend to quickly settle in the lungs, bones, and liver.

Plutonium isotopes on glaciers show unusual patterns linked to nuclear tests and accidents. This research warns of environmental risks from contaminants released during glacier melt. Scientists at IFJ ...

Plutonium, Pu, is a man-made metallic element ... It is extremely challenging to produce, purify, mill, melt, mold, weld, control and store. All these processes have taken place at sites across ...

A NAGASAKI World War Two bombing survivor - who devoted his life to campaigning against nuclear weapons - has died aged 93. Shigemi Fukahori horrifically described the "skin melting" impact of the ...

People on the Internet have apparently been wondering what plutonium tastes like lately, leading to some perplexing Google search results. According to the screenshot, the answer is that it has ...

It promises higher operating safety margins due to higher thermal conductivity and melting point, and produces no new plutonium as it operates. Thor Energy says thorium-plutonium fuels therefore ...

A research team led by researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has synthesized a new plutonium isotope, plutonium-227. This study was ...

Scientists from the Argonne National Laboratory, a division of the US Department of Energy, have made a significant breakthrough in understanding how liquid plutonium oxide (PuO2) behaves at ...

More information: Stephen K. Wilke et al, Plutonium oxide melt structure and covalency, Nature Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-01883-3 ...

“Plutonium oxide melt structure and covalency,” in the April 2024 issue of Nature Materials. “Argonne is probably the only place in the world capable of performing this very difficult ...

The world’s oldest documented plutonium contamination may not lie in the Chihuahuan Desert at the Trinity Site, where the first-ever atomic bomb ripped open the skies and melted the sand into green ...