Flerovium

Flerovium is a superheavy artificial chemical element with symbol Fl and

atomic number 114. It is an extremely radioactive synthetic element. The element
is named after the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions of the Joint Institute
for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, where the element was discovered in
1998.

At present, Flerovium is only used in research. Despite several attempts to

make element 114, it was only in 1998 that a team led by Yuri Oganessian and
Vladimir Utyonkov at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Russia
produced it by bombarding plutonium with calcium. It needed 5 billion billion (5
x 1018) atoms of calcium to be fired at the target to produce a single atom of
flerovium, in an experiment lasting 40 days. A few more two atoms were
produced the following year.

Source: http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/114/flerovium