The National Nuclear Security Administration has authorized the start of full-scale construction of the Savannah River ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has authorized “full construction” of a plutonium processing facility in Aiken, S.C., a ...

As the National Nuclear Security Administration pushes to dramatically accelerate plutonium pit production, it is cutting ...

Only a small handful of the public will likely ever get to see the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF) in ...

NIST-developed transition-edge sensors measured interfering X-ray emissions from uranium, plutonium and neptunium with ...

A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to importing plutonium from Russia and then selling it through the mail.

Plutonium is one of the most complex elements in the periodic table. First synthesized and isolated in 1940 by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, plutonium has been studied closely ...

Oxidation is the process where atoms lose electrons during a chemical reaction. Among the radioactive elements, neptunium and plutonium are much harder to oxidize than uranium. To study these elements ...

A US man admitted to illegally importing and selling radioactive plutonium and possessing child porn.