LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – New findings from a study aimed at researching how much plutonium is in the ground and water near Los Alamos National Laboratory, have the lead scientists concerned. “I’m ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (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 ...

The U.S. has for almost a decade been on a cross-country nuclear weapons odyssey known as plutonium pit production. The project to pump out cores for nuclear warheads in South Carolina and New Mexico, ...