Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new BetaVolt battery beside a small coin. The battery is smaller in size in comparison. Chinese scientists have built a ...

What do a capsule in Australia, a cylinder in Thailand and a camera in the US have in common? All three contained radioactive material and went missing over the past three months, in what experts say ...

One year ago last week the Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge, Tenn. began selling radioactive isotopes made in its uranium pile. Already, these atomic by-products have had important influences on U.S.

Researchers measured very precisely atomic masses of radioactive lanthanum isotopes and found an interesting feature in their nuclear binding energies. The discovery provides essential data for ...

Kyle Clavier, left, and Dan Clayton are helping develop a standardized screening method to determine the most important radioactive isotopes to monitor from all of those produced by an advanced ...

A novel apparatus at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has made extremely precise ...

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