On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...

In a post on X, Dubey attached a copy of a 1978 letter from members of the US Congress addressed to the US President. The letter expressed concern about the CIA's secret operation and the potential ...

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who has a penchant for raking up controversy, slammed the Congress in an X post on Monday, accusing ...

Using surplus plutonium as fuel for advanced nuclear reactors can cut costs, reduce waste, and strengthen U.S. non-proliferation goals.

The proposed plutonium pit facility at Savannah River Site will reconstruct a massive 500-room partially completely abandoned building designed for the Mixed Oxide Plant. The spectacularly failed ...

What Does Plutonium Taste Like? Plutonium has a metallic taste, according to Don Mastick, who accidentally swallowed some in 1944.

A research team led by researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has synthesized a new plutonium isotope, plutonium-227.

For the first time in 35 years, the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has manufactured a plutonium pit for use in a nuclear weapon. Functioning as a radioactive core for nuclear ...

Am allegedly rediscovered musical genre called "plutonium jazz" is going viral on TikTok, but what's it all about and is it even real? Here's what you need to know.

This is the second story in a series about Sentinel, the Air Force’s nuclear missile modernization project. Other stories touch on the challenges in the surrounding communities near Sentinel ...

Based on the comparisons, they found that plutonium’s bonding to the alkylidene and N -heterocyclic carbene ligands was more covalent than predicted, hinting that f-block elements’ behavior ...

NASA has celebrated a shipment of half a kilo of plutonium oxide by the US Department of Energy, the largest since US production of plutonium-238 was restarted just over a decade ago. Plutonium-238 ...