For decades, humanity has sent robotic explorers far beyond Earth’s comfort zone—into places where sunlight is weak, nights are brutally cold, and dust storms can last for months. The secret that ...
Oxidation is the process where atoms lose electrons during a chemical reaction. Among the radioactive elements, neptunium and plutonium are much harder to oxidize than uranium. To study these elements ...
Awarded a prestigious Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research award, University of Iowa graduate student Logan Augustine will head to the Los Alamos National Laboratory to ...
A typical nuclear reactor uses only a small fraction of its fuel rod to produce power before the energy-generating reaction naturally terminates. What is left behind is an assortment of radioactive ...