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 ...

The Trump administration is considering a proposal to divert plutonium that plays a central role in the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile to fuel a new generation of power plants, according to an Energy ...

U.S. DOE's "Research Program Plan for Plutonium and Pit Aging," delivered to Congress in September 2021, obtained tardy response to FOIA request by SRS Watch on April 4, 2024 Los Alamos National Lab ...

SANTA FE, N.M. -- The National Nuclear Security Administration failed to properly evaluate its expansion of plutonium pit production at sites in South Carolina and New Mexico in violation of ...

Anti-nuclear activists fired away Friday at what they said is a dangerous and little known plan to produce deadly atomic weapons components at the Savannah River Site near Aiken. The federal ...

The Savannah River Site recently onboarded five apprentices as part of the inaugural Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF) class of Production Operator Apprentices. This development ...

This story has been changed to correct an error. Uranium byproduct, not plutonium pits, will be sent to Tennessee. At the Nancy Carson Library in Augusta, Ga., on Oct ...

A pair of lawmakers exhorted the Energy Department's top official to consider reining in a major nuclear arsenal modernization program amid long-running concerns over its cost and schedule performance ...