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Nichols moved plutonium production from Oak Ridge to Hanford, Washington. Meeting with DuPont officials and Lt. Col. Franklin Matthias mid-December 1942, they discussed site requirements.

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 ...

FILE: This is a World War II photo of the historic "B Reactor" at Hanford, Wash., which was the world's first plutonium production reactor. The Hanford nuclear reservation sits along the Columbia ...

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. At a June 1942, S-1 ...

And so, we've realized we’ve got to restore the production of plutonium pits in our complex," Wright said. "We’ve built one in the last 25 years, and we'll build more than 100 during the Trump ...

The history of Hanford nuclear reservation is often centered on the enormity of its original mission of refining plutonium to power the atomic bombs that would bring WWII to an end - and the clean ...

The Savannah River National Laboratory sits near the Georgia-South Carolina border between Augusta and Aiken. This site has a long history of involvement in the research and production of nuclear ...

McNutt estimates that restarting production of plutonium-238 would cost approximately $50 million-to-$75 million over the span of five years. This issue of funding typically has been where ...

The invention of the atom bomb has shaped both history and ecosystems across the globe. Its far-reaching impacts have even led scientists to consider using the signature of nuclear weapons to mark ...

Nichols moved plutonium production from Oak Ridge to Hanford, Washington. Meeting with DuPont officials and Lt. Col. Franklin Matthias mid-December 1942, they discussed site requirements.