The Trump administration is planning to give surplus plutonium from dismantled nuclear bombs to new nuclear startup companies ...

Watchdogs get rare inside look at MOX-to-pit facility, raising concerns over costly delays, redesigns, and readiness for ...

Last week U.S. District Judge Mary Lewis Geiger, South Carolina, faulted the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency for ignoring the National Environmental Protection Act and ...

One portion of a gargantuan plan to modernize the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal, costing $1.5 trillion over the next twenty years, has been opened for public scrutiny and comment beginning this week.

AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — In a story May 12 about the proposed production of pits at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, The Associated Press reported erroneously that pits were planned to store ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – North Augusta officials held a meeting on plans tied to renewed plutonium pit production at Savannah River Site on Tuesday. The discussion focused on a draft environmental impact ...

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, The Los Alamos Study Group takes aim at the U.S. government's plans to ramp up production of plutonium cores for the nation's nuclear arsenal with this ...

Jay Coghlan While being narrowly correct, Los Alamos National Laboratory public relations man Kevin Roark is misleading when he claims that plutonium pit production will not take place in the new ...

The Department of Energy is nearing the production of the first war reserve plutonium pit, the No. 2 official in the National Nuclear Security Administration said recently. Los Alamos National ...

The United States is relying on an aging nuclear arsenal for its protection. In the face of growing Russian and Chinese military power, the ongoing modernization is too slow. To modernize the U.S.