The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has recently embarked on the “new Manhattan Project” — a hiring spree and ...

A multibillion-pound plant to process plutonium is expected to bring thousands ... said it would be the "largest project ever" at the site. He added it did "not end our ambition" to build a ...

Supporters of the project saw the need for a more powerful and longer-lasting ... Next, the nuclear reaction products were chemically separated by means of the plutonium-uranium extraction (PUREX) ...

The final stop on the tour is an experiment that's getting ready to test plutonium later this spring. It's called Cygnus, and ...

This site churned out plutonium for nuclear weapons during WWII ... A more than 900-page document known as Project 2025, seen as a conservative policy roadmap for the new president, mentions ...

Scientists at IFJ PAN discovered significant differences in plutonium isotope accumulation between hemispheres, with unique ...

The so-called MOX plant was to turn excess weapons grade plutonium into nuclear fuel, but the project was beset with delays and cost overruns. The federal government walked away from the MOX ...

Lawrence National Lab has announced that they want to increase the plutonium “Utilization” at their plutonium facility. Plutonium is a highly hazardous, radioactive metal used in the Lab’s nuclear ...

Jimmy Carter formed the Department of Energy, opposed a major Oak Ridge nuclear project and responded to Three Mile Island.

140 tonnes of plutonium is currently being stored at Sellafield, the nuclear site in Cumbria The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a ...

Aiken City Council has spent the last of the $25 million the city received from the state's settlement with the Department of Energy over plutonium stored at the Savannah River Site. The city ...