In a lever-action rifle, the .357 Mag. offers tremendous utility to the target shooter, varminter or even the short-range whitetail deer hunter. Loading this cartridge with easily expanding pistol ...

F or the first time in 35 years, the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has manufactured a plutonium pit for ...

Los Alamos, the Atomic City, is facing a legacy of its nickname. High levels of plutonium present in samples taken in July ...

This, as he found out, isn’t something you should do lightly, as the one he used ended up containing an interesting mix of radioactive materials, including small amounts of plutonium-239 ...

The plutonium refined at the site as part of World War II’s Manhattan Project fueled the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, and much of the stockpile of nuclear weapons created during the ...

The only problem is its radio active and that means that when it decays it tends to fall apart. It is of course Plutonium and here to spell it out is Cambridge University's Ian Farnan. Plutonium's ...

Beginning in the late 1950s, the U.S. met this challenge by developing nuclear batteries known as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and producing plutonium-238 (Pu-238) as their fuel, ...

The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) reports that plutonium and cesium were stolen from the officials' car when they stayed overnight at a hotel. Authorities have not publicly commented on the ...

County commissioners pressed an official from DOE's Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office on legacy waste cleanup.

Japan’s plutonium stockpiles in Britain and France totaled 21.8 tons and 15.4 tons, respectively, as of December 2020. Britain shut down its only M OX plant in 2011, which means it can no longer ...

Might not be one for the holiday bucket list (Picture: Getty) Mutant sharks. White sand laced with plutonium. Water tainted with strontium. Hub cap-sized hermit crabs eating coconuts containing ...

Santa Fe County commissioners on Tuesday pressed an official from the Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office on ...