Beryllium: Workaday Metal Well-Established as a Practical Engineering Material, Beryllium has Shed its Cloak of Mystery. Expensive and Hard-to-Work in the Pure State, It Alloys with Other Metals ...

THE neutron yields from two americium – beryllium alloys have been measured. The alloys were prepared by the reduction of americium trifluoride with powdered beryllium metal in vacuum, according ...

The next element, beryllium, is relatively rare in the universe because it is also not formed in the nuclear furnaces of stars. It takes a supernova, in which heavier nuclei disintegrate, to make this ...

there is evaporated a small amount of, for example, beryllium or aluminium. Then the basic film is dissolved away by amylacetate or other appropriate solvent, the metal being left free.

The process of removing the used uranium-beryllium fuel from former nuclear submarine reactors at the Russian naval base Gremikha has concluded after more than a decade. (Image: Rosatom) The 11th and ...