The United States is preparing to mine a rare nuclear resource from some of its most dangerous Cold War legacies, turning ...

Oklo and LANL have conducted first plutonium fast reactor tests at NCERC, validating surplus fuel for advanced reactors like ...

A can of plutonium residue has been processed into a stable waste form for the very first time, the NDA said [NDA] A portion of "problematic plutonium" has safely been processed into a stable waste ...

A forthcoming Trump administration plan to make Cold War-era plutonium available to power companies for reactor fuel deserves a close look, nuclear industry officials said Wednesday. Why it matters: ...

An international collaboration to protect the world from nuclear threats got a boost in 2023 when a visiting researcher brought an understudied plutonium processing chemistry method to Pacific ...

A Dec. 16 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) links the drone sightings across the eastern U.S. to the search for a radioactive isotope that briefly went missing in New Jersey. "Drone Mystery ...

Technicians at a training site worked with a glove box, which is used to handle radioactive material. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory In a sprawling building atop a mesa in New Mexico, workers ...

What do a capsule in Australia, a cylinder in Thailand and a camera in the US have in common? All three contained radioactive material and went missing over the past three months, in what experts say ...

Suspension of plutonium oxide shipments to the Savannah River Site could impede startup operations at the Mixed Oxide, or MOX, fuel fabrication facility, according to a nuclear watchdog group.