Ever since the Manhattan project in World War II, actinide chemistry has been essential for nuclear science and technology. Yet scientists still seek the ability to interpret and predict chemical and ...

Oct. 11, 1939. Europe is at war, and US president Franklin D. Roosevelt has just received a fateful letter from Albert Einstein. Noting that “the element uranium may be turned into a new and important ...

For Adam Piotr Pikul of the Polish Academy of Sciences, there is always more to understand about the basic physics of uranium ...

Organometallic chemistry of the actinide metals thorium and uranium has been undergoing a revival of sorts lately. This renewed interest is being sparked by a desire to better understand their ...

UV-Visible-NIR microspectroscopy brings together high-spatial resolution microscopy and spectroscopy across the ultraviolet (UV), visible, and near-infrared (NIR) spectral regions. This technique is a ...

Scientists have managed to successfully make a transuranium complex where the central metal, here neptunium, forms a multiple bond to just one other element. Enabling study of such a bonding ...

Actinide materials comprise a class of substances made up of elements positioned in the periodic table from actinium to lawrencium. Known for their complex electronic properties and radioactivity, ...

The strategies foreseen for future development and employment of nuclear power generation underline the use of nuclear energy systems in which the nuclear fuel contains consistent and controlled ...