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An independent scientific advisory group to the federal government found that the plutonium in the United States’ existing nuclear weapons stockpile is “aging slowly” and degradation issues “do not ...

AIKEN — As the deadline approaches for the public to comment about producing plutonium pits at Savannah River Site and Los Alamos National Laboratory, plaintiffs whose lawsuit led to the settlement ...

Plutonium is one of the most complex elements in the periodic table. First synthesized and isolated in 1940 by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, plutonium has been studied closely ...

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A Democratic senator is raising concerns that the Trump administration’s plans to let several private energy companies access weapons-grade plutonium could set a new and dangerous precedent globally.

Weapons-grade plutonium can fuel nuclear reactors known as mixed oxide reactors, but none of these exist in the U.S. The Trump administration’s plan to offer plutonium from dismantled Cold War–era ...

For years, the U.S. Energy Department has been trying to decide what to do with literally tons of surplus plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons. Now, the Trump administration is pushing a plan ...

Apparently, the U.S. government’s solution for its stockpile of plutonium left over from Cold War-era nuclear weapons is to give private companies a shot at turning some of it into energy. The U.S.