Plutonium hotspots appear along tribal lands, hiking trails, city streets and the Rio Grande River, a watchdog group finds ...

When I was a kid we used to go to a place we just called “The Book Barn.” It was pretty descriptive, as it was just a barn ...

Workers have begun laying the groundwork for the first production later this year of plutonium “pits” — hollow spheres the ...

A vast subsea nuclear graveyard planned to hold Britain’s burgeoning piles of radioactive waste is set to become the biggest, ...

LOS ALAMOS — Los Alamos National Laboratory is converting part of the waste stream from plutonium purification into a steady, ...

Trace amounts of plutonium from decades of weapons work at Los Alamos National Laboratory have contaminated the Rio Grande at least as far as Cochiti Lake and could be in the regional aquifer that ...

To accelerate waste cleanup at the Hanford site, DOE awarded Argonne $3.9 million to pursue scientific breakthroughs in plutonium chemistry DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Argonne researchers are ...

A group of high-school students studying construction and welding at the Barnwell County Career Center recently learned about ...

The machine, dubbed Scorpius, will provide greater insight into plutonium, the essential ingredient in detonating a nuclear device. It will be housed 1,000 feet underground at the Nevada National ...

Then there is the Hanford cleanup. Recent projections for cost and completion of the task of cleaning up radioactive and ...

Japan’s plutonium stockpiles in Britain and France totaled 21.8 tons and 15.4 tons, respectively, as of December 2020. Britain shut down its only M OX plant in 2011, which means it can no longer ...

Apr. 25—Trace amounts of plutonium from decades of weapons work at Los Alamos National Laboratory have contaminated the Rio Grande at least as far as Cochiti Lake and could be in the regional ...