Now, nuclear material can be traced even after they are moved
The technique takes advantage of the fact that radioactive material changes the arrangement of valence electrons - or outer electrons - in insulator materials, such as brick, porcelain, glass - even hard candy.
Jul 06, 2017, 16:31 PM ISTThis is how to 'fish out' toxic radioactive elements from nuclear waste
Researchers reported the first examples of thorium with multiple bonds to arsenic to exist under ambient conditions on multi-gram scales where before they had only been prepared on very small scales at temperatures approaching that of interstellar space.
Mar 12, 2017, 14:11 PM IST