Groups accuse feds of secrecy in withholding report that could shape discussion on new nuclear weapons factory ...

An accident at the lab that produces America’s nuclear bomb cores could lead to more fatalities than previously estimated by ...

The public has until July 16 to comment on production of plutonium pits at Savannah River Site and Los Alamos.

Plutonium is one of the most complex elements in the periodic table. First synthesized and isolated in 1940 by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, plutonium has been studied closely ...

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Environmentalists are asking for the release of a key study that could show whether the nation needs to begin producing ...

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Editor’s note: This is a response to an article by Sasan Karimi, titled “Beyond alarmism: A realistic assessment of Bushehr’s plutonium risk,” which itself was a response to an article by Henry ...

Plutonium can be used to make nuclear bombs. But it can also be recycled and used as a fuel in nuclear reactors. According to the authors of a Nature editorial, the UK—which has the largest civilian ...

Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU), supported by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) and in collaboration with Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology ...

On Thursday, NASA is expected to launch its new Mars rover, Perseverance, on a mission to search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. It’s the agency’s largest and most autonomous Martian ...