How Do You Handle a Plutonium-Powered Pacemaker? Very carefully, found Philadelphia’s Hahnemann hospital, which had to find a new caretaker for a patient’s decades-old device when it went bankrupt ...

Radioactive pacemakers are actually a thing The US Atomic Energy Commission also created a pacemaker powered by plutonium-238. They implanted it into a dog for testing back in 1969.

Am allegedly rediscovered musical genre called "plutonium jazz" is going viral on TikTok, but what's it all about and is it even real? Here's what you need to know.

Extraterrestrial Plutonium Atoms Turn Up on Ocean Bottom The rare form of the element found on the Pacific seabed points to its violent birth in colliding stars.

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But experts say that plutonium isn’t the most dangerous of the isotopes seeping out of the reactor. Over the short term, radioactive iodine may be the most worrisome, they say.

For the first time in 35 years, the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has manufactured a plutonium pit for use in a nuclear weapon. Functioning as a radioactive core for nuclear ...

Various options have been explored, including, in the 1970s, plutonium. Nuclear-powered pacemakers have thankfully fallen out of fashion and today, devices with lithium batteries last between 5 ...

Captured: The molecular structure of plutonium dioxide-239 Devoted fans can wait hours on the red carpet to get their favourite movie star's autograph, but that's nothing compared to acquiring the ...

It appears that the U.S.'s plutonium-238 shortage is coming an end. The radioisotope is crucial for fueling long-term deep space missions, but as of 2017, a shortage was on the horizon. But ...

Seventy years ago, researchers created weapons-grade version of the elusive element for use in atomic bombs.

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.