A plan to dilute and dispose of excess plutonium dating back to the Cold War was frozen by an executive order President Donald Trump issued late last month. Instead, the order directs Energy Secretary ...
The U.S. Department of Energy, after years of legal disputes with South Carolina officials, says it will haul away tons of deadly atomic material it had shipped to the Palmetto State for use in a ...
The U.S. Department of Energy says it will pay South Carolina $600 million for the government’s failure to remove bomb-grade plutonium from a nuclear weapons complex that was stuck with the material ...
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Oct. 15, 2002 -- Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have found a better way to measure plutonium oxide particles in glove boxes where plutonium research is done. The new ...
The National Nuclear Security Administration recently approved a crucial next step for a project designed to dispose of metric tons of excess defense plutonium in the U.S. The semiautonomous U.S.
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US aims to extract rare plutonium from Cold War nuclear waste
The United States is preparing to mine a rare nuclear resource from some of its most dangerous Cold War legacies, turning ...
Among the Biden administration’s nuclear challenges are ongoing civilian plutonium programs in China and Japan. Also, South Korea’s nuclear-energy research and development establishment has been ...
While studying legacy contaminated soil samples from the Plutonium Finishing Plant waste crib at the Hanford Site (Richland, WA), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers located and ...
Officials at one of the nation’s premier nuclear labs are investigating the potential exposure of employees to plutonium. Los Alamos National Laboratory confirmed Monday that 15 workers were being ...
Oct. 21—Santa Fe residents would see shipments of plutonium trucked through the city's southern edge if federal agencies carry out plans announced nearly a year ago. The prospect worries activists, ...
On January 23, the Secretary of Energy announced a decision to dispose of surplus weapons grade plutonium by mixing it with uranium oxide to form mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel. The plutonium would then be ...
Tennessee Valley Authority is to negotiate the trial use of MOX nuclear fuel in its power reactors as part of the US-Russian agreement to dispose of weapons plutonium. Trials in the past were carried ...
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