Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are breathing new life into the scientific understanding of neptunium, a unique, radioactive, metallic element—and a key ...
Lasers, heat and a notoriously tricky element are at the center of a quiet revolution in how the United States plans to power missions far beyond Mars. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers ...
Neptunium, element 93 on the periodic table of elements, was the first transuranium element to be produced synthetically and the first actinide series transuranium element to be discovered. Its ...