The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started ...
With much fanfare, the world's two nuclear superpowers announced in 1998 that they would destroy 68 tons of plutonium stripped from bombs and warheads. The cost, counted in billions, would be borne ...
An independent oversight agency wants to see improved safety systems at the facility at the heart of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium pit mission: PF-4. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety ...
Our entire region should be extremely proud of the B Reactor. A massive edifice, built in a year, under tight security. The B Reactor is an underutilized worldwide tourist attraction. Visitors leave ...
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have trapped a single plutonium atom inside a tiny molecular cage, using only six micrograms of the radioactive metal. The work turns an element ...