Work continues at the Savannah River Site to transform the Mixed-Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility into a plutonium pit production facility. The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 22—The head of U.S. Strategic Command in rounds of congressional testimony this week described renewed plutonium pit ...

SEATTLE — New batches of plutonium-238 may become available to NASA starting in 2017, perhaps preventing feared shortages of this vital spacecraft power source. The United States has not produced ...

As of this past Labor Day, there are strong indications that future workers at the planned, new Savannah River Plutonium Processing Plant (SRPPF) may face unnecessary, increased risks of exposure to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 19—As a further sign Los Alamos National Laboratory is inching toward its 2026 target for making 30 warhead triggers a year, ...

Over the course of two weeks, a government pledge, that dozens of nuclear weapon cores known as pits could be made by 2030 at new and improved facilities some 1,600 miles apart, publicly crumbled.

Deep space exploration, in which spacecraft travel to the outer reaches of our solar system or beyond, requires a whole lot of power. For NASA, a valuable source of this power is a radioactive ...

A byproduct of aging nuclear weapons stockpiles could help power spacecraft on missions lasting decades. Americium-241, an ...

Voyages into space are among the most iconic endeavors of the 20th and 21st centuries. Spacecraft that have ventured out to this “final frontier” have relayed stunning images and enlightening ...

The Department of Energy is scheduled to decide within days where plutonium parts for the next generation of nuclear weapons are to be made, but recent internal government reports indicate serious and ...