A plan to dilute and dispose of excess plutonium dating back to the Cold War was frozen by an executive order President Donald Trump issued late last month. Instead, the order directs Energy Secretary ...
A portion of "problematic plutonium" has safely been processed into a stable waste form in a UK first, a nuclear disposal ...
The U.S. Department of Energy, after years of legal disputes with South Carolina officials, says it will haul away tons of deadly atomic material it had shipped to the Palmetto State for use in a ...
The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced it has succeeded in safely processing a can of plutonium residue into a ...
The U.S. Department of Energy says it will pay South Carolina $600 million for the government’s failure to remove bomb-grade plutonium from a nuclear weapons complex that was stuck with the material ...
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Oct. 15, 2002 -- Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have found a better way to measure plutonium oxide particles in glove boxes where plutonium research is done. The new ...
Officials at one of the nation’s premier nuclear labs are investigating the potential exposure of employees to plutonium. Los Alamos National Laboratory confirmed Monday that 15 workers were being ...
While studying legacy contaminated soil samples from the Plutonium Finishing Plant waste crib at the Hanford Site (Richland, WA), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers located and ...
Oct. 21—Santa Fe residents would see shipments of plutonium trucked through the city's southern edge if federal agencies carry out plans announced nearly a year ago. The prospect worries activists, ...
On January 23, the Secretary of Energy announced a decision to dispose of surplus weapons grade plutonium by mixing it with uranium oxide to form mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel. The plutonium would then be ...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — In late 2018, a behemoth fuel facility at the Savannah River Site was axed. Its cancellation, enabled by a court ruling and promises of saving billions of dollars, marooned more than ...