Storing radioactive waste poses a problem for nuclear power facilities worldwide and often leads to heated debates over the pitfalls of nuclear energy production. Pictured, environmental activists ...

Chemists have made a breakthrough in research into how radioactive waste is stored – through an element called californium. The team from the Florida State University said their research into the ...

The chemical element californium, with an atomic number 98 and atomic symbol Cf, cannot be found in Nature. This is because it is a synthetic element, meaning that it is human-made and no form of it ...

Californium could recycle nuclear waste from power plants and weapons facilities. The material can be formed into storage containers that could recycle these highly-dangerous waste materials, ...

At today’s prices, one gramme of californium-252 can be valued at around $27 million, a figure that can exceed the value of roughly 200 kg of gold depending on where gold is trading. That headline ...