For decades, deep space exploration has depended on a handful of obscure isotopes quietly heating small nuclear batteries on robotic probes. Now a different, even less familiar element is moving to ...
Professor Richard Ambrosi, Perpetual Atomics Chief Scientific Officer, and Charles Brachon, Orano Recycling Strategic Development Manager – Radioisotope-Based Activities, concluded the americium-241 ...
Work by the UK's National Nuclear Laboratory to recover americium-241 from the UK's ageing civil plutonium stockpile under a contract with the European Space Agency raises some interesting issues, ...
The National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and the UK Space Agency will work together to create the first space battery powered by nuclear fuel Americium-241. This work will be completed in a new £19 ...
Orano and Perpetual Atomics Sign Agreement for Sourcing Americium-241 from Spent Nuclear Fuel Recycling to Create Space-based Power Systems Americium-241 from Orano's spent nuclear fuel recycling ...
Americium-241 from Orano's spent nuclear fuel recycling process will create steady, long-lasting energy in Perpetual Atomics' radioisotope power systems for scientific, commercial, and exploration ...