The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started ...

Recycled plutonium and the push to decarbonize power Beyond specialized isotopes, the administration is leaning into a broader concept that would have been politically toxic a generation ago: Recycled ...

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The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced it has succeeded in safely processing a can of plutonium residue into a stable waste form for the first time, marking a significant step toward ...

SEATTLE(AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first ...

America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...

Zheleznogorsk, once erased from maps as Krasnoyarsk-26, was a Soviet closed city built by tens of thousands of Gulag ...

Canada’s former top soldier says we need to consider developing nuclear weapons in the name of strategic independence. But that will have massive costs ...