The proposed plutonium pit facility at Savannah River Site will reconstruct a massive 500-room partially completely abandoned ...

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Two conflicting reports on Iran's nuclear weapons program were disclosed this week. Both reports offer important insight into just how Tehran is spee ...

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the intense light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...

"The Reggane region, where the first French atmospheric nuclear tests were conducted in the 1960s in Southern Algeria, is located in one of the most active dust source regions responsible for ...

Saharan sand contains radioactive isotopes of plutonium and cesium that can be transported from the great African desert to ...

The neutrons will show how plutonium behaves in a higher radiation environment such as the core of a bomb. The final stop on ...

During its operational years, Hanford supplied plutonium for the “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki in World War 2 and accounted for 65 percent of the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.

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 ...