The United States is preparing to mine a rare nuclear resource from some of its most dangerous Cold War legacies, turning ...

Nuclear bombs do not rely on size, they rely on physics. Here is how chain reactions and hydrogen bombs unleash power on a ...

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 UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced it has succeeded in safely processing a can of plutonium residue into a stable waste form for the first time, marking a significant step toward ...

America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...

The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has been allocated GBP154 million (USD207 million) in government funding to develop specialised capabilities to enable plutonium disposal. The government ...

Indian and American climbers were prepared with their cargo, an antenna, cables and a 13 kg generator called the SNAP-19C.

A New York Times investigation revisits a covert CIA operation that left a plutonium-powered surveillance device lost on Nanda Devi in 1965, a Cold War secret that continues to raise fears of ...

What we know so far: The United States is opening part of its Cold War – era plutonium stockpile to help reduce reliance on Russian uranium and speed development of next-generation nuclear reactors.

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family paid their respects Friday to the victims of the atomic bombing 80 years ago of the city of Nagasaki. Naruhito, his wife, Empress Masako, ...