The United States is preparing to mine a rare nuclear resource from some of its most dangerous Cold War legacies, turning ...

In nuclear terms, Japan is a classic “latent nuclear power,” meaning it is a country that doesn’t have nuclear weapons but ...

A plan to dilute and dispose of excess plutonium dating back to the Cold War was frozen by an executive order President Donald Trump issued late last month. Instead, the order directs Energy Secretary ...

The LANL workers followed safety protocols and were successfully decontaminated, according to the safety board report.

The Savannah River Site has a total of 51 waste tanks. Eight of those tanks have been operationally closed. (From Savannah River Site fact sheet, May 2022, U.S. Department of Energy) South Carolina’s ...

Rising threats are prompting some politicians in Japan, the only nation attacked with nuclear weapons, to reconsider its ...

According to the Chattanooga Times Free-Press, the Tennessee Valley Authority will consider using weapons-grade plutonium as nuclear fuel in its Sequoyah and Browns Ferry plants.The National Nuclear ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration plans to make available about 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to U.S. power companies as a potential fuel for ...

SEATTLE — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first atomic ...

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, Airman 1st Class Jonathan Marrs, 21, left, and Senior Airman Jacob Deas, 23, right, work to dislodge the 110-ton cement and steel blast door covering the ...

Plutonium has a half-life of 20,000 years, and the controversy over the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant should continue at least that long. With good reason: If we forget that the plant ...

India is not just a routine customer – it’s a nuclear-armed state that never signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty ...