Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A new study has made a troubling discovery about the health of ecosystems near Los Alamos, New Mexico, where ...

In 1966, a mid-air collision during a U.S. military mission caused four hydrogen bombs to fall over southern Spain. Two detonated conventional explosives, spreading plutonium, while another was lost ...

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 ...

Newly released memo urges Los Alamos to accelerate plutonium pit production as critics raise safety and environmental concerns.

Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an atomic bomb, according to Edward Morse, a professor of nuclear engineering ...

DOE’s efforts to manage surplus Pu-239 have been guided by the recommendations of a 1994 National Academy of Sciences study of plutonium disposition. The study made four specific recommendations (NAS, ...