Nuclear chemistry articles within Nature

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    | Open Access

    A new strategy to separate radioactive americium from lanthanides based on complexation with polyoxometalates and ultrafiltration technique is highly efficient and rapid, does not involve any organic components and requires minimal energy input.

    • Hailong Zhang
    • , Ao Li
    •  & Shuao Wang

  • Article |

    Carbene chemistry is used to introduce difluoromethyl groups labelled with fluorine-18 into compounds for positron emission tomography imaging, using a reagent designed for high molar activity and versatility.

    • Jeroen B. I. Sap
    • , Claudio F. Meyer
    •  & Véronique Gouverneur

  • Article |

    An einsteinium coordination complex is synthesized and spectroscopically characterized using less than 200 nanograms of einsteinium, enabling examination of its structure and measurement of an einsteinium bond distance.

    • Korey P. Carter
    • , Katherine M. Shield
    •  & Rebecca J. Abergel

  • Article |

    Enhanced covalency is achieved for a curium complex with curium–sulfur bonds by subjecting the compound to high pressures, indicating that pressure can be used to tune covalency in actinide compounds.

    • Joseph M. Sperling
    • , Evan J. Warzecha
    •  & Thomas E. Albrecht-Schönzart

  • Letter |

    The thermal neutron capture cross-section of 88Zr is measured to be 861,000 ± 69,000 barns, the second-largest neutron capture cross-section ever measured.

    • Jennifer A. Shusterman
    • , Nicholas D. Scielzo
    •  & Anton P. Tonchev

  • Letter |

    Lawrencium, with atomic number 103, has an isotope with a half-life of 27 seconds; even so, its first ionization potential has now been measured on an atom-at-a-time scale and agrees well with state-of-the-art theoretical calculations that include relativistic effects.

    • T. K. Sato
    • , M. Asai
    •  & N. Trautmann

  • Comment |

    Simple chemical pathways open up proliferation possibilities for the proposed nuclear 'wonder fuel', warn Stephen F. Ashley and colleagues.

    • Stephen F. Ashley
    • , Geoffrey T. Parks
    •  & Robin W. Grimes

  • News Feature |

    For decades, one design has dominated nuclear reactors while potentially better options were left by the wayside. Now, the alternatives might finally have their day.

    • M. Mitchell Waldrop

  • News |

    Fukushima's economic fallout shutters Britain's Sellafield mixed-oxide facility.

    • Edwin Cartlidge

  • News Feature |

    More than 100 cold-war era research reactors run on uranium pure enough to be used in a nuclear weapon. But switching to safer fuel isn't easy.

    • Geoff Brumfiel

  • Books & Arts |

    Fact-packed final volume of a quartet on nuclear security is required reading, writes Joseph Cirincione.

    • Joseph Cirincione

  • Comment |

    Building nuclear power plants in the United States could be the best clean alternative to coal in the near future. Or it could be a costly mistake.

    • Charles D. Ferguson
    • , Lindsey E. Marburger
    •  & Arjun Makhijani

  • Opinion |

    The US Congress should discourage efforts to advance the technology to make fuel for nuclear reactors, say Francis Slakey and Linda R. Cohen — the risks outweigh the benefits.

    • Francis Slakey
    •  & Linda R. Cohen

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