TOKYO (AP) – Last year’s tsunami disaster in Japan clouded the nation’s nuclear future, idled its reactors and rendered its huge stockpile of plutonium useless for now. So, the industry’s plan to ...

TOKYO - Last year's tsunami disaster in Japan clouded the nation's nuclear future, idled its reactors and rendered its huge stockpile of plutonium useless for now. So, the industry's plan to produce ...

TOKYO (AP) — Last year's tsunami crisis left Japan's nuclear future in doubt and its reactors idled, rendering its huge stockpile of plutonium useless for now. So, the nuclear industry's plan to ...

Aug. 18—Federal officials estimate Los Alamos National Laboratory won't produce 30 nuclear bomb cores until 2030 — four years after the legally required deadline. The additional time needed to produce ...

WASHINGTON (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 fuel for ...

The Energy Department is moving to resume production of plutonium-238 as an energy source for spacecraft and some national security activities, because existing supplies will be virtually gone in five ...

Voyages into space are among the most iconic endeavors of the 20th and 21st centuries. Spacecraft that have ventured out to this “final frontier” have relayed stunning images and enlightening ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The discovery of nuclear fission in ...

The post cold-war world needs to plan what to do with plutonium as the stockpiles of nuclear warheads are dismantled. The Department of Energy has considered MOX and “down-blending” as possible ...

North Korea appears to be making new nuclear bomb fuel, satellite imagery shows, even as its leader, Kim Jong Un, has expressed willingness to negotiate atomic disarmament with President Donald Trump.

Siegfried Hecker, former director of the U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos, told Congress that North Korea did not show him conclusive evidence of a nuclear weapons program during his ...

North Korea has confirmed it has produced "a little bit of plutonium" for experimental use at a secret nuclear facility, the Japanese national television network NHK reported Wednesday. A member of ...