An accident at the lab that produces America’s nuclear bomb cores could lead to more fatalities than previously estimated by ...

Environmentalists are asking for the release of a key study that could show whether the nation needs to begin producing ...

South Carolina Environmental Law Project wants public comment period extended past July 16 and the release of documents ...

Plutonium is one of the most complex elements in the periodic table. First synthesized and isolated in 1940 by scientists at ...

(Corrects paragraph 20 to say Piefer said once plutonium generates power it can no longer be used to make bombs, not it is no ...

Monitoring antineutrino emissions from a fusion reactor could enable scientists and authorities to determine whether the ...

Utilizing excess plutonium from nuclear weapons for peaceful purposes has long been an ambition in nuclear power. Now, AI induced demand is moving this dream forward.

A research team led by researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has synthesized a new plutonium isotope, plutonium-227. Their study is published in ...

Plutonium can be used to make nuclear bombs. But it can also be recycled and used as a fuel in nuclear reactors. According to the authors of a Nature editorial, the UK—which has the largest civilian ...

When NASA's next Mars rover blasts off later this month, the car-sized robot will carry with it nearly eight pounds of a special kind of plutonium fuel that's in short supply. NASA has relied on that ...