And getting it out of the ground and turned into useful materials, including its radioactive offspring plutonium, is anything ...

The world watched two powers — one with not-so-secret weapons, the other with ambiguous arms ambitions — as they threatened ...

Voyager 1 has just sent back a message scientists could understand for the first time in months, ever since Voyager 1 started ...

The conclusion of World War II was marked by a harrowing decision that changed the course of history: the dropping of two ...

The $1.8 billion Scorpius project at the Nevada National Security Site will provide greater insight into the "sort of ...

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

Apr. 8—In two incidents on the same day last month, Los Alamos National Laboratory workers accidentally set off a decontamination shower, causing flooding in the lab's plutonium facility ...

A project at Los Alamos National Laboratory could process nuclear waste to a lower radioactivity so it wouldn't need to go to ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Plutonium Pirates In this action packed arcade adventure, pilot your trusted old chopper into enemy territory in search of nukes to abduct. Then blast ...

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 ...

The nearly two-year wait to see how South Carolina will spend its plutonium settlement money could be over soon. S.C. Sen. Tom Young, R-Aiken, and S.C. Rep. Bill Taylor, R-Aiken, both said ...

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 ...