The huge PUREX processing plant at Hanford is at risk of releasing radioactive contamination into the environment the longer it remains standing, according to a new Department of Energy report. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A plan to dilute and dispose of excess plutonium dating back to the Cold War was frozen by an executive order President Donald ...

Watchdogs get rare inside look at MOX-to-pit facility, raising concerns over costly delays, redesigns, and readiness for ...

Partially finished plutonium fuel (MOX) plant at the Savannah River Site, which DOE has proposed to convert ino the controversial SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (SRSPBP), at a current cost estimate of ...

Opponents of the SRS Plutonium Processing Facility said April 22 that the facility is unneeded and will be the most expensive ...

The Trump administration plans to supply the nuclear power industry with plutonium from decommissioned warheads dating back to the Cold War. The plan could provide 20 metric tons of plutonium fuel to ...

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

A further one-and-a-half pounds of highly-enriched uranium is missing Dounreay re-processing plants, which is extremely worrying. ''There is the suspicion that the materials are escaping either ...

The Japanese government says it has detected plutonium outside the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant for the first time. One type of plutonium found - plutonium-239 - has a half-life of 24,000 years.

North Korea said in April it had restarted the plutonium separation complex at its Soviet-era Yongbyon nuclear plant, which was being taken apart under a six-way disarmament-for-aid deal. There had ...