Normally, materials expand when heated. Higher temperatures cause atoms to vibrate, bounce around and take up a larger volume. However, for one specific phase of plutonium—called delta-plutonium—the ...

You can hold plutonium in your hand, but it has the potential to destroy entire cities. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Plutonium ...

Karen Silkwood was either a martyr among whistleblowers and nuclear safety activists, or, if you believe her employer’s account, a lunatic who smeared plutonium on the bologna in her fridge. As a lab ...

This is the second story in a series about Sentinel, the Air Force’s nuclear missile modernization project. Other stories touch on the challenges in the surrounding communities near Sentinel ...

Plutonium can be used to make nuclear bombs. But it can also be recycled and used as a fuel in nuclear reactors. According to the authors of a Nature editorial, the UK—which has the largest civilian ...

Plutonium is a radioactive, silver metal that can be used to create or destroy. While it was used for destruction soon after it was made, today the element is used mostly for creating energy ...

A plan to dilute and dispose of excess plutonium dating back to the Cold War was frozen by an executive order President Donald Trump issued late last month. Instead, the order directs Energy Secretary ...

WASHINGTON – A half-metric ton of weapons-grade plutonium secretly shipped into Nevada has been removed four years early under federal court order and an agreement reached by U.S. Sen. Catherine ...

Workers in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility tracked contamination throughout a waste staging area, according to a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board report this month, alarming ...

Exclusive-Trump Plans to Make Cold War-Era Plutonium Available for Nuclear Power By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration plans to make available about 20 metric tons of Cold ...