The United Kingdom has the largest stockpile of plutonium in the world, so why are we getting rid of it? Tali Fraser explores ...

Atomic Energy’s death spiral has spawned a run to green power. But the toxic mineral lithium has become a critical ...

Plutonium 'pits' and Small Modular Reactors are all part of Energy Secretary Chris Wright's early goals for his department.

Radioisotope thermoelectric generators do not rely on chemical reactions like the batteries in your phone. Instead, they rely ...

But the GMB union said plutonium should be considered "a national asset, not a liability". The Department for Energy Security ...

Most RTGs are built using plutonium-238 as their source of energy, which is not usable for nuclear power plants since it does not sustain fission reactions. Instead, plutonium-238 is an unstable ...

NDA officials are said to lean in favour of burying the plutonium deep under the sea, permanently locking it away safely in a plan known as “immobilisation”. Mr Miliband, the Energy Secretary ...

to manufacture fertilizer and pesticides. In 1952, the Atomic Energy Commission began operations at Rocky Flats as a federal atomic weapons facility, producing plutonium triggers for hydrogen bombs.

The energy secretary, a longtime oil and gas executive, said climate change was a real physical phenomenon but not a crisis.