Two companies with ties to Oak Ridge have netted $1.8 billion in federal support meant to spur domestic uranium enrichment.

Late last week, Israel targeted three of Iran’s key nuclear facilities – Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow, killing several Iranian nuclear scientists. The facilities are heavily fortified and largely ...

Uranium enrichment is a critical process that increases the concentration of Uranium-235, essential for both nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons. Various methods exist for enriching uranium, ...

Uranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth, a German chemist. It is a radioactive element found naturally in the environment in very small amounts — scientists call these trace amounts — in ...

Depleted uranium shells will equip M1A1 Abrams battle tanks, also from the U.S. Lance Cpl. Julio McGraw, USMC/Flickr These isotopes are all uranium and have the same chemical characteristics, but they ...

U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann is pushing to defund a nuclear nonproliferation research program that supports work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in his district. Since 2016, Congress has given $100 ...

Making megawatts out of megatons, Dominion Resources Inc.’s four nuclear power stations have helped reduce the world’s nuclear weapon threat by burning up uranium fuel once used in Russian nuclear ...

The U.S. has announced it's sending depleted uranium anti-tank rounds to Ukraine, following Britain's lead in sending the controversial munitions to help Kyiv push through Russian lines in its ...

TEHRAN, Iran - In a bid to ease international concerns over its nuclear program, Iran has converted more than a third of Tehran's most highly enriched uranium into a powder for a medical research ...