Workers in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility tracked contamination throughout a waste staging area, according to a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board report this month, alarming ...

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WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to cancel a plan to make surplus plutonium from Cold War-era atomic bombs available as a fuel for ...

The Trump Administration is proposing to make 20 metric tons of plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads available to U.S. power firms for use in advanced nuclear reactors. This plan follows an ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to make available about 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to U.S. power companies as a potential ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to cancel a plan to make surplus plutonium from Cold War-era atomic bombs available as a fuel for nuclear ...

Sen. Ed Markey is sounding the alarm over the White House’s plans to dole out weapons-grade plutonium to private industry and whether those plans could end up benefiting a nuclear reactor company with ...

A light-water reactor could provide more weapons-grade plutonium, abetting the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s vow to expand his nuclear arsenal. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul In what would ...