Scientists at IFJ PAN discovered significant differences in plutonium isotope accumulation between hemispheres, with unique ...

In a notice of intent posted earlier this month, the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration ...

The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match the low isotopic ratios (below 0.07) from France's nuclear tests. Instead, ...

Plutonium can migrate downstream, enter water supplies, and be absorbed by plants, eventually making its way into the food ...

A multibillion-pound plant to process plutonium is expected to bring thousands of skilled jobs in the coming decades, the government has said. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA ...

The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a secure facility at Sellafield in Cumbria. The UK has the world's largest stockpile of the ...

The current idea is to vitrify the plutonium – bake it into a ceramic glass, like material – and bury it 1000 metres below in a geological disposal facility (GDF). However, the UK currently possesses ...

The UK government has announced that the country's stockpile of some 140 tonnes of civil plutonium - currently stored at the Sellafield site in Cumbria - will be immobilised and eventually disposed of ...

A sealed compartment with safety gloves attached caught fire at Los Alamos National Laboratory in November, resulting in officials shutting down a portion of the site’s plutonium facility for 10 ...

The Rokkasho reprocessing plant is intended to separate plutonium from spent fuel for reuse as fuel. Company president Kenji Kudo told reporters at the company’s headquarters in Aomori, in northern ...

More than 60 Tri-Valley residents turned out to a public meeting on the Livermore Lab's role in a nationwide program to enhance the production of plutonium weapons, with additional public meetings now ...

140 tonnes of plutonium is currently being stored at Sellafield, the nuclear site in Cumbria The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a ...