The radioactive material could be absorbed by plants and eventually endanger the rest of the food chain. Study makes discovery near birthplace of atomic bomb: 'One of the most shocking things' first ...

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The National Nuclear Security Administration’s deputy administrator for defense programs argued in a memo this month that Los Alamos National Laboratory should increase its annual production of ...

U.S. DOE's "Research Program Plan for Plutonium and Pit Aging," delivered to Congress in September 2021, obtained tardy response to FOIA request by SRS Watch on April 4, 2024 Los Alamos National Lab ...

SPRINGFIELD — Federal investigators told a judge last week that they are continuing to assess what the customers who allegedly purchased small amounts of plutonium from a Hadley man did with the ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to cancel a plan to make surplus plutonium from Cold War-era atomic bombs available as a fuel for nuclear ...