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 ...

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 ...

We hold immense concern about heavy metal exposure for ourselves and children, and we take the threat of "forever chemicals" ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...