An accident at the lab that produces America’s nuclear bomb cores could lead to more fatalities than previously estimated by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mr Miliband will ultimately be responsible for deciding what is done with the plutonium - Lauren Hurley/DESNZ Ed Miliband has been ...

Plutonium is not a fun word to speak, hear, or write. Used to depict an actinide metal we've known about for some time, it has become synonymous with human-caused destruction on a hard-to-comprehend ...

The Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb wasn't without its own dangers. Experiments on a so-called "demon core" of plutonium caused the deaths of two Manhattan Project physicists. Both ...

The San Francisco Health Department is sounding the alarm over high levels of radioactive “plutonium 239” detected in the air in Hunters Point. Plutonium 239 is used for nuclear weapons and has been ...

Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU), supported by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) and in collaboration with Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology ...

The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) achieved a commendable milestone after it successfully processed its first can of plutonium residue into stable waste form. The milestone marks the ...

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 ...

This story was reported as part of The New York Times Local Investigations Fellowship and is republished here with permission. Este artículo también está disponible en español. In a sprawling building ...

The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a secure facility at Sellafield in Cumbria. The UK has the world's largest stockpile of the ...

Clinical trials have begun on a promising drug designed to remove radioactive particles from the body. Here’s how it works. A gas mask hangs in Pripyat Elementary School #3, Ukraine. The entire city ...