Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control approved an air quality construction permit for the Savannah ...

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 ...

As of this past Labor Day, there are strong indications that future workers at the planned, new Savannah River Plutonium Processing Plant (SRPPF) may face unnecessary, increased risks of exposure to ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) released its draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for national production of up to 205 plutonium pits per year (ppy) on April 10 ...

The DOE selected Oklo and four other companies to work on converting surplus plutonium into usable fuel for next-generation reactors. Companies that operate government-owned plutonium processing and ...

North Korea says it has resumed plutonium production from spent fuel rods and has no plans to stop nuclear tests as long as the United States still “threatens” Pyongyang, Kyodo News reported Wednesday ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the organization within the Energy Department that is responsible for producing and maintaining US nuclear warheads, is moving forward with a plan ...

Unlike its adversaries, the United States is currently lacking a viable capability to produce plutonium pits for its nuclear warheads. The long-term plan to develop the capability over the next decade ...

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 ...