An executive order signed in May of this year aims to make 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium available to U.S. power companies to be used as potential fuel for nuclear reactors, a Reuters ...

Scenes from the nuclear theater of a long cold war: In the 1940s and '50s, when Americans still trusted their doctors and their government, researchers subjected hundreds of ill-informed people to ...

Radioactive material that had gone missing near Mexico City this week was found Wednesday near where the stolen truck that had been transporting the material was located, according to the country’s ...

Nuclear energy is one of the most polarizing topics when it comes to ways of generating electricity. On one hand, there are those who believe nuclear is a much better alternative to fossil fuels and ...

Four radioactive wasp nests were discovered at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina. The first nest was destroyed, and the wasps were disposed of as radioactive waste. The DOE asserts ...