Radioisotope power systems (RPS) keep spacecraft going with nuclear batteries. Until now, RPS operated using a plutonium isotope, but researchers have found that an isotope of americium could keep ...

Researchers remotely operate mechanical arms to isolate key alpha isotopes for medical use at a lab of the China Spallation Neutron Source in Dongguan, Guangdong province. [Photo provided to China ...

The U.S. Department of Energy and the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) have started producing a crucial medical isotope, according to a community announcement. Gadolinium-153 (Gd-153) is ...