A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a ...

At higher intensity, the vapors associated with MIVOC compounds saturate the source ... is prepared to accommodate the much more radioactive californium target than plutonium-244. Thanks to heavy ...

Modern thermonuclear weapons rely on what is called a plutonium pit. This core component contains a gas such as deuterium and tritium that is encased in chemical explosives. Once detonated ...

The man who dared to oppose nuclear weapons in a town where many people made comfortable livings manufacturing plutonium to arm ... warheads and the sites PUREX chemical processing plant at ...

That's the actual vessel that we will use. That's a 3-footer. BRUMFIEL: In a few months, inside this vessel, scientists will blow up a tiny quantity of plutonium using chemical explosives. It's ...

Identifying physical and chemical characteristics of the waste ... produced nearly two-thirds of the plutonium from World War II through the Cold War for the nation’s nuclear weapons program.

Because Hanford was used to make plutonium for the very first nuclear ... A total of 55 million gallons of chemical and nuclear waste are stored in 177 tanks at the site. In the processing of ...

In particular, many of the Gen IV advanced modular reactor designs propose the use of uranium fluoride-containing molten salt fuel, metallic uranium, or uranium/plutonium alloys (Krall, Macfarlane and ...

Courtesy Department of Energy The 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons ...

Because Hanford was used to make plutonium for the very first nuclear bomb, the waste there is particularly complex, containing nearly all of the elements of the periodic table, said Bussey. A total ...