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The difference between the transition metals and the actinides lies in which outer shell gets filled first by available electrons. Protactinium, Wilson noted, is particularly important because it ...

"The actinides are the heaviest group of elements on the periodic table," Anirudh Patel, a doctoral candidate in the Theoretical High Energy Astrophysics group at Columbia University who was not ...

The discovery provides new understanding of how berkelium and other actinides behave relative to their peers in the periodic table,” says Stefan Minasian, a scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Chemical ...

Scientists have discovered 'berkelocene,' the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berkelium. The breakthrough disrupts long-held theories about the ...

The proposed Fission-Fusion Hybrid Molten Salt Reactor (FFHMSR), combining two subsystems, a deuterium + tritium (DT) fusion reactor surrounded by a neutron-absorbing Fusion Blanket (FB) and a ...

A TMSFR-LF fast reactor optimized for burning minor actinides is to follow. The TMSR-SF0 is one-third scale and has a 370 kW electric heat source with FLiNaK primary coolant at 650°C and FLiNaK ...

Actinides bound within C 28 cages (An@C 28 ) could form materials with novel electronic, magnetic, and optical properties ...

The discovery provides new understanding of how berkelium and other actinides behave relative to their peers in the periodic table,” says Stefan Minasian, a scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Chemical ...