{"id":10218,"date":"2026-02-04T04:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/neptunium-study-yields-plutonium-insights-for-space-exploration\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T04:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:02:39","slug":"neptunium-study-yields-plutonium-insights-for-space-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/neptunium-study-yields-plutonium-insights-for-space-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Neptunium study yields plutonium insights for space exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Neptunium study yields plutonium insights for space exploration<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Researchers at the Department of Energy&#8217;s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are breathing new life into the scientific understanding of neptunium, a unique, radioactive, metallic element\u2014and a key precursor for production of the plutonium-238, or Pu-238, that fuels exploratory spacecraft.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-02-neptunium-yields-plutonium-insights-space.html\">Go to techxplore<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neptunium study yields plutonium insights for space exploration Researchers at the Department of Energy&#8217;s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are breathing new life into the scientific understanding of neptunium, a unique, radioactive, metallic element\u2014and a key precursor for production of the plutonium-238, or Pu-238, that fuels exploratory spacecraft. Go to techxplore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,45],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-10218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-green-tech","category-techxplore","tag-techxplore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}