The bomb was no threat to be set off since "the plutonium was separate from the bomb casing and the explosives that caused the implosion," Stephen Schwartz, the author of Atomic Audit: The Costs ...

Moltex, a UK-founded company developing its waste-to-fuel reactor design in Canada, has previously argued that nuclear waste ...

This is the Hanford Site, the most contaminated nuclear location in America, and the site responsible for the plutonium in the Fat Man bomb.

A historic nuclear reactor in Washington State was a critical part of the Manhattan Project, a site where plutonium was ...

The UK government has announced that the country's stockpile of some 140 tonnes of civil plutonium - currently stored at the ...

Once detonated, the explosives condense the plutonium surrounding the case so ... the first US thermonuclear bomb test. Although initially estimated in 1959 to generate a blast equivalent to ...

The US has begun deploying modified B61 nuclear bombs in Europe in the B61-12 version, the head of the National Nuclear ...

which DOE has proposed to convert ino the controversial SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (SRSPBP), at a current cost estimate of $18-25 billion. Photo ©High Flyer, 2020. Los Alamos National Lab is ...

So why not the atomic bomb? Nazi Germany ... common uranium 238 would be transmuted into "element 94," now called plutonium. Like uranium 235, element 94 would be an incredibly powerful explosive.