President Trump signed four new executive orders (the Orders) to “usher in a nuclear energy renaissance.” In an article, the ...

By Kennedy Maize The Trump administration is proposing to create a government-owned corporation to manage much of the civilian nuclear power fuel cycle, including previously banned atomic bomb fuel ...

US President Donald Trump has signed four executive orders (EOs) intended to directly support nuclear power development, and ...

President Donald Trump on Friday signed orders meant to accelerate the construction of nuclear power plants, including small, ...

(Did the U.S. plan to drop more than two atomic bombs on Japan?) The first nuclear explosion was of a plutonium implosion device conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945 in the Jornada ...

In 2021, after a pair of plutonium-handling gloves had broken for the third time at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, contaminating three workers, and after the second accidental flood, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called “ the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of .” He got his Ph.D. in physics at 21 under ...

Plutonium enters the body by breathing in contaminated air or swallowing contaminated food or water. Once inside, plutonium particles tend to quickly settle in the lungs, bones, and liver.

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A PLUTONIUM treatment plant at Sellafield has moved a step closer to completion. The Sellafield Product and Residue Store Retreatment ...

The construction of a plutonium treatment plant has reached an important milestone as its roof was sealed with concrete. The roof of the Sellafield Product and Residue Store Retreatment Plant (SRP ...

Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being ...