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

The only problem is its radio active and that means that when it decays it tends to fall apart. It is of course Plutonium and here to spell it out is Cambridge University's Ian Farnan. Plutonium's ...

This, as he found out, isn’t something you should do lightly, as the one he used ended up containing an interesting mix of radioactive materials, including small amounts of plutonium-239 ...

IN a recent article 1 a modification to the normally accepted close-packed face-centred cubic structure of δ-plutonium was suggested. The purpose of this was to give a continuous gradation ...

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

Beginning in the late 1950s, the U.S. met this challenge by developing nuclear batteries known as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and producing plutonium-238 (Pu-238) as their fuel, ...

U.S. energy officials illegally neglected to study impacts to the environment in efforts to increase plutonium production for ...

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced the completion of 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 ...

It’s designed to secretly download other harmful software, according to Mandiant, a cybersecurity company owned by Google. "This memory-only dropper decrypts and executes a PowerShell-based ...

CALORIMETERS are often calibrated by generating a known electric current within them and observing the deflexion of the measuring instrument when the system is in a steady state. This method may ...

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.