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 ...
China is building two advanced nuclear reactors with Russian assistance that will produce plutonium for Beijing’s rapid buildup of nuclear weapons, according to a new Air Force think tank study. The ...
Dec. 13—After almost two months of negotiation, a compromise in an environmental lawsuit about plutonium pit production seems imminent. U.S. District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis ruled in September 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 ...
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US aims to extract rare plutonium from Cold War nuclear waste
The United States is preparing to mine a rare nuclear resource from some of its most dangerous Cold War legacies, turning ...
AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — In a story May 12 about the proposed production of pits at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, The Associated Press reported erroneously that pits were planned to store ...
It's been a quarter century since the US stopped producing plutonium-238, but shrinking worldwide stockpiles and the need for a suitable deep space power source led NASA and the DOE to begin ...
The United States is relying on an aging nuclear arsenal for its protection. In the face of growing Russian and Chinese military power, the ongoing modernization is too slow. To modernize the U.S.
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