On November 6, 1944, researchers at the Hanford Site in Washington first created weapons-grade plutonium, the radioactive element used less than a year later in the Fat Man, the atomic plutonium ...

The sometimes-unpredictable behavior of plutonium -- the world's most feared element -- is now considerably more predictable, an achievement that could help ensure the safe maintenance or disposal ...

SEOUL — The plutonium Japan has stockpiled for decades was supposed to be a smart energy source for the resource-poor nation. But last year's earthquake-triggered nuclear accident, along with ...

Really. Here's a poem by Pat Sheil of Granny's Column fame, read by John Derum, Isotopes and Allotropes. Should you wish to establish the date, Of the demise of a thylacine, Make a bone carbon ...