Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A plan to dilute and dispose of excess plutonium dating back to the Cold War was frozen by an executive order President Donald ...

The Department of Energy is accelerating construction of the new facility, aiming to produce 50 plutonium pits annually by 2030. While production ramps up, concerns remain about existing radioactive ...

Two conflicting developments arose this month in US efforts to produce new plutonium pits for its nuclear weapons: The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced it had produced a ...

The site will process aging plutonium pits to create new ones, generating hazardous and radioactive waste in the process. Some members of the public and a former citizens' advisory board chair ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A map of the areas sampled by analytical chemist Michael Ketterer who released his findings of legacy plutonium waste in Los ...

Last week U.S. District Judge Mary Lewis Geiger, South Carolina, faulted the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency for ignoring the National Environmental Protection Act and ...

Public health advocates say the US Navy knew for almost a year that tests had detected dangerous levels of plutonium in the air at San Francisco’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The Navy discovered the ...

Members of the Democratic Party are expressing doubt for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) alleged plan to give at least 20 metric tons of weapons-usable plutonium to the private sector for commercial ...

Repurposing surplus plutonium as reactor fuel could cut costs, ease the advanced nuclear fuel bottleneck, and offer a more permanent nonproliferation solution than dilute and dispose. America has some ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. A plan to dilute and dispose of excess plutonium dating back to the Cold War was frozen by an executive order ...