The admonition to “think globally, act locally” gets turned on its ear in the film “Pu-239” (8 p.m. Nov. 17, HBO) as two desperate men, thinking only of securing their own sons’ futures, take actions ...

Like its recent documentary White Light/Black Rain, HBO’s latest original movie, Pu-239, provides a thought-provoking examination of the nuclear age. The central figure in Pu-239 is Timofey, an ...

The clean-up of a decommissioned US nuclear weapons plant has unearthed one of the oldest known samples of man-made plutonium. Workers found roughly half a gram of weapons-grade plutonium-239 (Pu-239) ...

LONDON (AP) — Paddy Considine was at a point when he felt he wasn't going to be acting for much longer. Then he was offered the role of Timofey Berezin, a man who knew his life wasn't going to last ...

In Russia, technician and family man Timofey is exposed to 1,000 REMs (Roentgen Equivalent Man) of radiation in the nuclear facility where he works. The facility director hides the level of exposure ...

A fission event in any of the three kinds of fissile material releases enough neutrons to sustain further fission and create new fissile material from inexpensive fertile material. That makes fissile ...

Scott Z. Burns wasn't looking for script material when he read Ken Kalfus's short story ``Pu-239,'' about a Russian nuclear technician who steals weapons-grade plutonium to sell on the black market.