Think about a garden where flowers bloom beside nuclear reactors. It sounds impossible, yet it's happening right now. Since ...

UT researchers have made rare measurements of exotic nuclear decay that reshape how scientists think heavy elements form in extreme cosmic events. You can’t have gold without the decay of an atomic ...

Among the many science toys that have fallen out of fashion since we started getting nervous around things like mercury, ...

Nuclear decay and fusion dynamics constitute central pillars in modern nuclear physics, with implications ranging from energy production and astrophysical phenomena to the synthesis of novel elements.

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone remains one of Earth’s most haunting yet paradoxical places, where death and life intertwine in ...

Scientists found Chernobyl fuel grains that still contain radioactive gases and operational secrets from the reactor after 30 years ...

In this lesson, students will simulate the randomness of decay in radioactive atoms and visualize the half-life of a sample radioactive element. This lesson can be completed in two (2) 45-minute class ...

The impacts of science from HFIR include the development of medical isotopes and elements for the periodic table, fuels and ...

How long did it take our Sun to form in its stellar nursery? Scientists are now closer to an answer. They succeeded in the measurement of the bound-state beta decay of fully-ionized thallium ions at ...