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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Given the serious cost, scheduling, and scientific questions about the US government's program for producing new plutonium cores (or pits) for nuclear warheads, the authors recommend the program be ...

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 ...

Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being considered by the administration of President Donald Trump on expanding nuclear ...