The US nuclear facility at Hanford, which turns radioactive waste into glass as part ...

An undated photo capturing the Plutonium Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, with the Rio Grande valley and the Sangre de Cristo mountains in the background. (Photo courtesy of Los Alamos ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has restarted production of plutonium fuel, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday, showing that it plans to pursue its nuclear weapons program in ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy has produced its first batch of non-weapons grade plutonium, used to power space probes, since a nuclear reactor shutdown 25 ...

It's been a quarter century since the US stopped producing plutonium-238, but shrinking worldwide stockpiles and the need for a suitable deep space power source led NASA and the DOE to begin ...

Have you ever wondered what does a spacecraft and a pacemaker have in common? Both are powered by plutonium-238 (238 Pu), a versatile isotope, known for its ideal heating properties. Recent research ...

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major Gen. Kenneth D. Nichols continues her series on his life. ***Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...

HOUSTON – The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has restored a domestic plutonium-238 production capability after a three-decade lapse by processing a 50-gram sample of the ...