Environment
Radioactive leaks in eastern Japan
The Japan Atomic Energy Research and Development Agency said on September 16 that radioactive leakage of about 12,000 becquerels (bql) was found.
Plutonium
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Environment
Conceptual design of large plutonium nuclear reactor
The team led by Professor Yoshiaki Oka of Waseda University in Japan succeeded in developing the concept of a nuclear reactor capable of producing large amounts of pluto…
Environment
IAEA enhances the ability to analyze nuclear materials
On May 7, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it could meet the increasingly complex challenges of nuclear verification for at least the next 30 years. Th…
Environment
America helps Spain clean up contaminated areas
The US announced that it would send a team of experts to help Spain with the issue of purifying the area of radioactive contaminated soil by a nuclear bomb in 1966.
Environment
Japan reported the highest nuclear crisis
AFP news agency on March 29 reported that Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has warned, the country is being placed in the highest alarming state of the current crisis a…
Science Events
Austria: Plutonium leaks at IAEA nuclear laboratory
On August 3, a plutonium leak happened at the nuclear laboratory of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Seibersdorf, south of Austria's capital Vienna. Luck…
Science Events
Pakistan 'is building a new nuclear reactor'
Satellite images show Pakistan is building a nuclear reactor that could be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium, a US control agency said.
Scientific works
Pakistan is about to start Khushab-III nuclear plant
Within the next few months this Pakistani plant began to operate, significantly increasing plutonium stockpiles.
Science story
17 years of nuclear research
Taylor Wilson (17, American) advised the Homeland Security Bureau on counterterrorism tactics and coordinated with the Department of Energy to study nuclear fusion. Tayl…
Medicine - Health
The ambition to create a heart that works with nuclear energy by American scientists
In fact, since 1967, researchers have been thinking of developing a mechanical heart that works with radioactive decay energy.
Medicine - Health
Harmful effects of plutonium radioactivity
Takahashi Sentaro analyzed the harmful effects of plutonium by discovering plutonium in the Fukushima nuclear power plant No. I.
New technology
The US makes materials that the spacecraft used for 88 years does not run out
With a long half-life, Pu238 can provide an abundance of energy for spacecraft for nearly nine consecutive years.