How to Use actinide in a Sentence

actinide

noun
  • However, the energy-level structures of many atoms are still not fully explored, especially in the case of rare earths and actinides.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 25 Aug. 2025
  • In such a cycle, used nuclear fuel is reprocessed to separate plutonium and other actinides from fission products.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Transmuting actinides into isotopes Rosatom stated that fast neutron reactors can burn minor actinides by transmuting them into isotopes that are either stable or have shorter half-lives.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026
  • Future stages of the program involve increasing the concentration of minor actinides in trial MOX fuel and adding them to nitride uranium-plutonium fuel.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026
  • Rosatom indicated that eliminating minor actinides could allow nuclear waste to reach radiation equivalence with the original uranium feedstock hundreds of times faster than natural decay.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026
  • By recycling all actinides, radioactive chemical elements that follow actinium in the Periodic Table, the process could significantly reduce the amount of nuclear waste produced.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 May 2026
  • The objective is to validate experimental methods using surrogate materials before applying those same rigorous conditions to radioactive actinides.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Minor actinides, including neptunium, americium, and curium, are transuranic elements produced in nuclear fuel during reactor operation.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026
  • The reactor will be highly compact, occupying just four cubic metres, and capable of using a wide range of nuclear fuels, including uranium, plutonium, MOX, minor actinides, and thorium.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Alexander Ugryumov, Senior Vice President for Research and Development at TVEL, stated that burning minor actinides in a commercial reactor is a long-term strategy rather than a single experiment.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026

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