Boulder County is considering whether to continue supporting a project that would create a new trail connection on land known ...

A wildlife corridor plans to connect two Superfund sites at the former Rocky Flats plutonium plant and the Rocky Mountain ...

During the Cold War, the US produced hundreds of plutonium pits each year at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado. However, ...

Rocky Flats has evolved from being a producer of plutonium for nuclear weapons to becoming a refuge for wildlife. After ...

We recently reported on Sweden's construction of a large nuclear repository for radioactive waste near its nuclear power plant. Now, the UK is taking a similar approach. The British government has ...

The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation’s nuclear weapons programs.

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 ...

Kyushu Electric has a stockpile of plutonium in Britain, but it cannot take advantage of it because a local MOX production plant shut down. Calls have grown over the years to abandon the nuclear ...

Plutonium is used to make nuclear weapons. The former plant was designated as a federal Superfund site, and a 10-year, $7 billion clean-up was completed in 2005. The 1,300 acres the plant sat on ...