Like its recent documentary White Light/Black Rain, HBO’s latest original movie, Pu-239, provides a thought-provoking examination of the nuclear age. The central figure in Pu-239 is Timofey, an ...

Carolyn Krause concludes her series on plutonium and Oak Ridge with this installment that focuses on Louis Slotin. She also mentions the recent history of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s latest ...

The clean-up of a decommissioned US nuclear weapons plant has unearthed one of the oldest known samples of man-made plutonium. Workers found roughly half a gram of weapons-grade plutonium-239 (Pu-239) ...

A fission event in any of the three kinds of fissile material releases enough neutrons to sustain further fission and create new fissile material from inexpensive fertile material. That makes fissile ...

As the fuels of the space and atom age get more powerful, they also get harder to handle. Last week General Bernard Schriever, new chief of the Air Forces Research and Development Command, announced ...

Late Friday afternoon, the Department of Energy released an updated performance report on the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF). DOE's internal Office of Project Management Oversight and Assessment ...

While lawsuits seeking to close the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge (or simply gain more information about the site created from the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant) are stalled in court ...