Plutonium is currently stored at Sellafield in a powder form but needs to be processed before it is disposed of A multibillion-pound plant to process plutonium is expected to bring thousands of ...

Amazon followed suit and announced in November that it will invest $334 million to develop small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) at Hanford, site of the world’s first plutonium-production facility.

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.

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 ...

During its operational years, Hanford supplied plutonium for the “Fat Man ... A waste treatment plant, set to begin vitrifying the waste into glass in 2025, offers some hope.

Those charges alone will get someone locked up for quite a long time—throw in another conviction for trying to offload thousands of pounds of uranium and weapons-grade plutonium, and it’s ...

The so-called MOX plant was to turn excess weapons grade plutonium into nuclear fuel, but the project was beset with delays and cost overruns. The federal government walked away from the MOX ...

DOE releases short scorecards that summarize the annual performance of its contractors at the Hanford site in Eastern Washington and gives justification for the incentive pay, or "fee" as it ...

Trump’s nominee for energy secretary called finishing the environmental cleanup at the Hanford nuclear site ... producing nearly two thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons ...

The last nuclear power plant in ... reactors at Hanford, the highly polluted site we’ve talked about a lot over the last six months, where the majority of our country’s plutonium was produced?