A rhino named Beckham after the former England footballer is one of the animals who have had the pellets injected into their horns - Cebisile Mbonani/Bloomberg ...

as technicians packed up the newest Mars rover for launch. One of the last things installed was a nuclear power generator. It holds marshmallow sized pellets of plutonium that will fuel the electric ...

The irradiation of two fuel pins containing thorium-plutonium oxide pellets is under way at the Halden research reactor in Norway. Thor Energy - which is leading the consortium carrying out the ...