A battery that lasts not weeks or months, but decades, may soon be more than just a dream. While rechargeable lithium-ion ...

Cancer patients around the world could soon benefit from improved access to potentially life-saving treatments generated by the production of two critical medical isotopes – Yttrium-90 (Y-90) and ...

“Radiocarbon with its long half-life of 5,730 years and availability as a nuclear waste by-product, stood out as ... “As radiocarbon undergoes beta decay, it emits beta particles,” In ...

The decay energy of the radioactive source is converted into ... and can be used in series and parallel, allowing battery products of different sizes and capacities to be manufactured.” ...

A nuclear battery powered by radioactive decay rather than chemical reactions could last for decades. The most efficient design yet may bring this concept closer to reality. Researchers have ...

In a standard light-water reactor (LWR) a few percent of U-235 is used up this way, after which fission products ... captures that happen before nuclear decay can occur. The s-process is ...

Uranium (chemical symbol U) is a naturally occurring radioactive element. In its pure form it is a silver-coloured heavy metal, similar to lead, cadmium and tungsten. Like tungsten it is very dense, ...

Other details are similarly uncertain, including the depth at which the thorium is implanted in the crystal, the probabilities with which radioactive decay products are formed, and how the crystal ...

They are produced, for example, by nuclear reactions in the Sun ... It is set by the masses of the parent nucleus and the decay products. "Since the electron antineutrino mass is estimated ...

a fission product. Cesium-137 has a 30-year half-life — the time it takes for the radioactive material to decay by half. But in some locations, boars' cesium-137 levels were staying about the same.

They are produced, for example, by nuclear reactions in the sun ... It is set by the masses of the parent nucleus and the decay products. "Since the electron antineutrino mass is estimated ...