The skin of two workers in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility were contaminated in late November, according to a Dec. 5 Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board report. On Nov. 21, a ...

Nuclear start-up Oklo Inc. (OKLO) sits at the center of a policy shift that is transforming surplus plutonium from a Cold War liability into a potential energy asset. Federal direction now favors ...

A portion of "problematic plutonium" has safely been processed into a stable waste form in a UK first, a nuclear disposal group has said. The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said the can ...

Multi-day fast-spectrum reactor experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Criticality Experiments Research Center generate modern benchmark data. The data supports Oklo’s ...

Plutonium is considered a fascinating element. It was first chemically isolated in 1941 at the University of California, but its discovery was hidden until after the Second World War. There are six ...

Public health officials in San Francisco said no “immediate action” is needed to protect public safety after airborne plutonium was detected in the city. In 2024, the radioactive substance Pu-239 was ...

A person reflects in the window of the U.S. Department of Energy, with the official portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump on the wall, following a partial government shutdown in Washington, D.C., ...

The Department of Energy is accelerating construction of the new facility, aiming to produce 50 plutonium pits annually by 2030. While production ramps up, concerns remain about existing radioactive ...

Russia's lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved a move to withdraw from a landmark agreement with the United States aimed at reducing vast stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium left over from ...

MOSCOW, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Russia's lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved a move to withdraw from a landmark agreement with the United States aimed at reducing vast stockpiles of ...

Russia Moves to Withdraw From Plutonium Agreement With the United States By Guy Faulconbridge and Anastasia Teterevleva MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved a ...

Plutonium has captured the attention of scientists since its discovery in the early 1940s. This enigmatic element has an important role to play in emerging energy technologies like nuclear batteries ...