The National Nuclear Security Administration’s deputy administrator for defense programs argued in a memo this month that Los Alamos National Laboratory should increase its annual production of ...
Plutonium contamination persists in canyon ecosystems near Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, with recent research ...
The radioactive material could be absorbed by plants and eventually endanger the rest of the food chain. Study makes discovery near birthplace of atomic bomb: 'One of the most shocking things' first ...
The memo points to geopolitical strife as a reason behind increased urgency to modernize America's nuclear stockpile.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has officially given the greenlight to start of construction on a massive new training hub.
The Department of Energy is accelerating construction of the new facility, aiming to produce 50 plutonium pits annually by 2030. While production ramps up, concerns remain about existing radioactive ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 22—The head of U.S. Strategic Command in rounds of congressional testimony this week described renewed plutonium pit ...
SEATTLE — New batches of plutonium-238 may become available to NASA starting in 2017, perhaps preventing feared shortages of this vital spacecraft power source. The United States has not produced ...
Deep space exploration, in which spacecraft travel to the outer reaches of our solar system or beyond, requires a whole lot of power. For NASA, a valuable source of this power is a radioactive ...