Workers in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility tracked contamination throughout a waste staging area, according to a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board report this month, alarming ...
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 ...
Opinions differ on whether the half ton of weapons-grade plutonium secretly shipped by the U.S. government to the Nevada National Security Site could impact residents’ health and the environment.