Your tax dollars are being spent to build seven new nuclear weapons programs simultaneously. But there’s time for public ...

The production of nuclear spacecraft fuel, currently a dwindling resource, could go into overdrive in the early 2020s.

In this 14th installment of several articles covering the life and accomplishments of Kenneth D. Nichols, his diplomacy skills are stretched thin over plutonium production.

Given the serious cost, scheduling, and scientific questions about the US government's program for producing new plutonium cores (or pits) for nuclear warheads, the authors recommend the program be ...

Beginning in the late 1950s, the U.S. met this challenge by developing nuclear batteries known as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and producing plutonium-238 (Pu-238) as their fuel, ...

Production of plutonium pits at the Savannah River Site and Los Alamos National Laboratory remains a top priority of the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Nuclear Security Administration.

Overseeing the production is the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which is pushing to get Los Alamos whirring to life this year to start making plutonium ...

South Carolina District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis sided with environmental, anti-nuclear proliferation and community groups last week who sued the National Nuclear Security Administration.

In this 14th installment of several articles covering the life and accomplishments of Kenneth D. Nichols, his diplomacy skills are stretched thin over plutonium production.