Maybe the US will let Denmark keep this part of Greenland. Two Danes claim they developed cancer after helping to clean up ...

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started ...

Canada’s former top soldier says we need to consider developing nuclear weapons in the name of strategic independence. But that will have massive costs ...

Recycled plutonium and the push to decarbonize power Beyond specialized isotopes, the administration is leaning into a broader concept that would have been politically toxic a generation ago: Recycled ...

Mr. Coghlan’s letter has not been fact-checked by the Los Alamos Reporter. In its own words, “The New Mexico Environment ...

America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Standing next to a 12-foot nuclear bomb that looks more like a trim missile than a weapon of mass destruction, engineer Phil Hoover exudes pride. “I feel a real sense of ...

SEATTLE(AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first ...

The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced it has succeeded in safely processing a can of plutonium residue into a stable waste form for the first time, marking a significant step toward ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have trapped a single plutonium atom inside a tiny molecular cage, using only six micrograms of the radioactive metal. The work turns an element ...