Oklo Inc (NYSE:OKLO) shares are trending Wednesday morning after the company announced ongoing fast-spectrum reactor ...

A portion of "problematic plutonium" has safely been processed into a stable waste form in a UK first, a nuclear disposal ...

The Navy was chided on Monday for failing to report elevated levels of plutonium for nearly a year. But those levels, it ...

Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard. Photo by Christopher Michel. Radioactive plutonium was found in the air above Bayview-Hunters Point at twice the federal government’s recommended levels, according to a ...

The two lawmakers questioned the necessity of the nuclear weapons agency's plutonium pit strategy in a letter exclusively ...

The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) achieved a commendable milestone after it successfully processed ...

It’s widely known that a smoke detector is a good ionizing radiation source, as they contain a small amount of americium-241, a side product of nuclear reactors. But what about other sources? [Carl ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. (KGO) -- In a notice of intent posted earlier this month, the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration informing the public of their plan to increase the ...

A team of scientists has discovered a new, stable form of plutonium – and done so by accident. The famously unstable element is tricky to transport, store and dispose of, but the find could lead to ...

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 ...

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), whose tenth review conference is coming up in August, is in trouble, and not only because of the crescendo of complaints about the failure of the ...

It appears that the U.S.'s plutonium-238 shortage is coming an end. The radioisotope is crucial for fueling long-term deep space missions, but as of 2017, a shortage was on the horizon. But ...