The first plutonium pits were created at the Los Alamos site for the Trinity test, which saw the world’s first detonation of a nuclear bomb in the desert of New Mexico.

The article goes on to claim that plutonium jazz was banned after artists and concert attendees got radiation poisoning. The ...

The proposed plutonium pit facility at Savannah River Site will reconstruct a massive 500-room partially completely abandoned building designed for the Mixed Oxide Plant. The spectacularly failed ...

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., first announced the removal of the plutonium, stored at the Nevada National Security Site north of Las Vegas, on Friday.

The United States has begun producing plutonium-238 for the first time in a quarter century, marking a key step toward averting a feared shortage of this important spacecraft fuel.

Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being considered by the administration of President Donald Trump on expanding nuclear ...

A Japanese Yakuza leader pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday for attempting to traffic military-grade weapons and roughly 1,100 lbs of narcotics. Those charges alone will get someone ...

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 ...