The large Saharan dust cloud that blanketed Europe back in March 2022 contained some unexpected ingredients, according to a ...

In 2022, samples from a Sahara dust storm showed that radioactivity from nuclear tests 70 years ago still drifts around ...

Scientists at IFJ PAN discovered significant differences in plutonium isotope accumulation between hemispheres, with unique ...

The nuclear tests conducted by the United States and the then USSR (present day Russia) during the Cold War-era have left ...

Beginning in the late 1950s, the U.S. met this challenge by developing nuclear batteries known as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and producing plutonium-238 (Pu-238) as their fuel, ...

Plutonium has occurred naturally, but except for trace quantities it is not now found in the earth's crust. It was first isolated in 1941. A typical large nuclear power reactor creates about ...

Plutonium is currently stored at Sellafield ... the government has said. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said the Sellafield facility in Cumbria would turn the radioactive waste ...

Plutonium has accumulated at Sellafield for decades as a byproduct of spent nuclear fuel. The government had been exploring the possibility of reusing the stockpile as mixed oxide fuel (MOX), in which ...

Saharan sand contains radioactive isotopes of plutonium and cesium that can be transported from the great African desert to other continents.

Over the past 50 years, there have been several incidents where workers at US nuclear weapons facilities came in contact with or inhaled plutonium. To date, intensive health checks of these ...

140 tonnes of plutonium is currently being stored at Sellafield, the nuclear site in Cumbria The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a ...

The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a secure facility at Sellafield in Cumbria. The UK has the world's largest stockpile of the ...