In a major decision whose consequences are still being assessed, a federal judge declared that plutonium pit production — one ...

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

During the Cold War, the US produced hundreds of plutonium pits each year at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado. However, ...

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have synthesized a novel plutonium isotope, plutonium-227, marking a ...

Fluor said Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure, its JV with a subsidiary of BWX Technologies and Amentum, was awarded the contract earlier this year. According to Fluor, a protest against the ...

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

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 ...

The so-called Demon Core was a cursed object, a 6.2 kilogram mass of plutonium intended to be installed in a nuclear weapon. Instead, slapdash experimental techniques saw it feature in several ...

As announced by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the First Production Unit ...

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 ...

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.