The skin of two workers in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility were contaminated in late November, according ...
Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard. Photo by Christopher Michel. Radioactive plutonium was found in the air above Bayview-Hunters Point at twice the federal government’s recommended levels, according to a ...
Oklo and LANL have conducted first plutonium fast reactor tests at NCERC, validating surplus fuel for advanced reactors like ...
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US to recover world’s only supply of rare plutonium from Cold War nuclear wastes
The US Department of Energy has launched a new radiochemical separation process at the Savannah River National Laboratory to ...
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 ...
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