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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Nuclear Security Administration’s deputy administrator for defense programs argued in a memo this month that Los ...

Voyages into space are among the most iconic endeavors of the 20th and 21st centuries. Spacecraft that have ventured out to this “final frontier” have relayed stunning images and enlightening ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A physicist, lawyer, and three heads of nuclear watchdog organizations walked into the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF) on Apr. 21 in Aiken, S.C. around 4 p.m., when construction ...

Russia announced that it had shut down the second of its three plutonium-producing reactors - the ADE-5 unit at Seversk - as part of a nuclear non-proliferation programme with the USA. Russia ...

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 ...