The Energy Department says it is closing in on mass producing warhead-ready plutonium pits—the explosive core of nuclear ...

The component, called a “plutonium pit,” is the radioactive component that acts as a first stage ‘trigger’ apparatus used to initiate the detonation of the thermonuclear device. Plans call for the W87 ...

An undated photo capturing the Plutonium Facility at Los Alamos National Labratory, with the Rio Grande valley and the Sangre de Cristo mountains in the background. (Photo courtesy of Los Alamos ...

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A new study has revealed alarming levels of plutonium contamination near Los Alamos, New Mexico, the site where the first ...

NDA officials are said to lean in favour of burying the plutonium deep under the sea, permanently locking it away safely in a ...

Ed Miliband has been urged to preserve a 140-tonne stockpile of radioactive plutonium instead of burying it as dangerous waste. The material, which is made up of spent fuel from power plants ...

Residents of Santa Fe, New Mexico - less than a half-hour drive from the birthplace of the atomic bomb - are drinking from a water supply with alarming traces of plutonium, scientists have found.

North Korea said Sunday it has ordered its artillery corps near the border with South Korea to fully prepare to shoot after the North threatened a "horrible disaster" over the alle... Senior diplomats ...

Robert Oppenheimer didn't think Clinton Laboratories, predecessor of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was worth saving.

Most of us don’t think twice about how displays produce color. But if you’ve ever looked at a sampling of televisions next to each other at an electronics store, you may have realized that ...