The U.S. defense budget, which the House of Representatives passed this week largely along party lines, includes a provision that could ramp up the required capacity for plutonium pit production at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Savannah River Site opens new construction fronts to build its plutonium facility The National Nuclear Security Administration ...

Behind closed doors, Congress is in the process of making a decision that will have a profound impact on nuclear risk levels and global security. Hanging in the balance is a decision to recklessly ...

In the next few decades, many physicists are hopeful that nuclear fusion could become a realistic source of practically limitless energy. But before this can happen, it will be critical to ensure that ...

A professional nuclear engineer reacts to popular misconceptions about plutonium production, breaking down the actual physics ...

Unlike its adversaries, the United States is currently lacking a viable capability to produce plutonium pits for its nuclear warheads. The long-term plan to develop the capability over the next decade ...

It's been a quarter century since the US stopped producing plutonium-238, but shrinking worldwide stockpiles and the need for a suitable deep space power source led NASA and the DOE to begin ...

Russia announced that it had shut down the second of its three plutonium-producing reactors - the ADE-5 unit at Seversk - as part of a nuclear non-proliferation programme with the USA. Russia ...