Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A new study has made a troubling discovery about the health of ecosystems near Los Alamos, New Mexico, where ...

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 ...

The United States is preparing to mine a rare nuclear resource from some of its most dangerous Cold War legacies, turning aging plutonium waste into fuel for reactors and power for spacecraft. The ...

LOS ALAMOS — A sphere of plutonium the size of a grapefruit contains enough energy to erase an entire city from existence. That single fact explains why nuclear weapons remain humanity’s most feared ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – After years of missed deadlines, New Mexico is demanding that the U.S. Energy Department expedite the cleanup of so-called legacy nuclear and hazardous waste at Los Alamos National ...

DOE’s efforts to manage surplus Pu-239 have been guided by the recommendations of a 1994 National Academy of Sciences study of plutonium disposition. The study made four specific recommendations (NAS, ...

The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced it has succeeded in safely processing a can of plutonium residue into a stable waste form for the first time, marking a significant step toward ...

Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an atomic bomb, according to Edward Morse, a professor of nuclear engineering ...

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started operating in October 2025. The history of the Hanford Site and the way the stored ...

Plutonium (Pu) exhibits one of the most diverse and complex chemistries of any element in the periodic table. Since its discovery in 1940, scientists have synthesized and studied many different types ...