You can hold plutonium in your hand, but it has the potential to destroy entire cities. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Plutonium ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists say plutonium may be the worst of all the fission byproducts that could enter the ...

For historical reasons, plutonium brings to mind nuclear weapons. Jan Hartmann brings another side of element 94 to attention, which features an upcoming trip to its eponymous celestial body.

Plutonium is a radioactive, silver metal that can be used to create or destroy. While it was used for destruction soon after it was made, today the element is used mostly for creating energy ...

Frank von Hippel and colleagues review some disposal options for radioactive plutonium waste (Nature 485, 167–168; 2012). Another option is the profitable consumption of plutonium from thermal nuclear ...

Plutonium gets inside cells by hitching a ride on the iron-transport protein transferrin—but only when iron comes along for the ride, scientists at Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern ...