Plutonium is not a fun word to speak, hear, or write. Used to depict an actinide metal we've known about for some time, it has become synonymous with human-caused destruction on a hard-to-comprehend ...

The government and the nuclear industry hope to use much of the plutonium at Oma’s advanced plant, which could use three times more plutonium than a conventional reactor. Meanwhile, the plutonium ...

When I was a kid we used to go to a place we just called “The Book Barn.” It was pretty descriptive, as it was just a barn filled with old books. It smelled pretty much like you’d expect a barn filled ...

The UK's 140-tonne stockpile of civil plutonium could be used as fuel for thermal reactors or combined with the country's 100,000-tonne supply of depleted, natural and low-enriched uranium to fuel new ...

Repurposing surplus plutonium as reactor fuel could cut costs, ease the advanced nuclear fuel bottleneck, and offer a more permanent nonproliferation solution than dilute and dispose. America has some ...

SRS Watch is a non-profit public-interest group located in Columbia, South Carolina that monitors policies and programs of the U.S. Department of Energy, with a focus on the Savannah River Site ...

In September, the city council of Westminster, Colorado voted not to fund a pedestrian bridge and underpass at the Rocky Flats site due to concerns about residual soil contamination from plutonium and ...

This article is part of “The New Nuclear Age,” a special report on a $1.5-trillion effort to remake the American nuclear arsenal. In early nuclear bombs, like the ones the U.S. dropped on Japan in ...