On April 22, a federal grand jury indicted Jacob Miller, 43, on charges of being a felon in possession of explosives and ...

Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU), supported by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency ...

The first plutonium pits were created at the Los Alamos site for the Trinity test, which saw the world’s first detonation of a nuclear bomb in the desert of New Mexico.

The Dragonfly drone to Titan and other groundbreaking NASA missions rely on plutonium-238, a material now in critical ...

SHOCKING satellite pictures have emerged showing Iran’s nuclear power plant with a gaping hole after Israeli precision ...

Plutonium is the 94th element in the periodic table and one of the most dangerous elements on Earth. Here we explore Plutonium in more detail.

Contamination from the little-known ‘Operation Hurricane’ will remain for thousands of years to come, scientists predict.

The proposed plutonium pit facility at Savannah River Site will reconstruct a massive 500-room partially completely abandoned building designed for the Mixed Oxide Plant. The spectacularly failed ...

Making plutonium pits means working with "extremely hazardous and radioactive materials," Nuclear Watch New Mexico, one of the groups behind the suit, pointed out. As of 2018, the government had ...

But that argument misses the point. Compared to the plutonium still contained in CANDU spent fuel, the plutonium in the fresh fuel intended to be used in Moltex’s reactors would be far more accessible ...

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., first announced the removal of the plutonium, stored at the Nevada National Security Site north of Las Vegas, on Friday.