Satellite images have revealed that China is building a nuclear power plant in a mountain facility that is likely intended to ...

It's been half a century since a woman died on her way to meet with a reporter, hoping to expose safety violations at a ...

North Korea appears to be operating a more powerful reactor for producing plutonium at its main nuclear site for the first time, the United Nations atomic agency said late Thursday, days after ...

The tube held the first bit of plutonium created at the B Reactor, the world’s first nuclear plant. National Park Service visitors to Hanford’s B Reactor sit in front of the towering front ...

The plutonium for the bomb that was dropped ... The world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor, the so-called B Reactor, went online for the first time 80 years ago today.

With undisguised pride, Los Alamos, N.M., the birthplace of the atomic bomb, announced on Oct. 2 the arrival of a new member ...

The American Physical Society has recognized the Graphite Reactor, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National ...

One of the primary forms of waste from a typical nuclear light water reactor (LWR) is the spent fuel from the fission reaction. These consist of roughly 3% waste isotopes, 1% plutonium isotopes ...

Plutonium contained in spent nuclear fuel ... to be considered includes extending the operational life span of nuclear reactors and mobilizing all the resources of the parties involved to restart ...