Scientists identify a new stable form of plutonium | SmartBrief

Scientists identify a new stable form of plutonium | SmartBrief: Scientists using the European Synchrotron have discovered a new solid phase, stable form of plutonium. "It will change, for sure, the theoretical predictions of plutonium behavior in the environment over a period of millions of years," says Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf physicist Kristina Kvashnina.