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

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When plutonium production ceased in 1989, the site’s mission shifted to the environmental cleanup of significant chemical and radioactive waste left behind. Energy is the federal agency responsible ...

In addition, the team found rainwater samples with methylated arsenic compounds in them. These compounds are produced when organisms like bacteria, algae, plants, or fungi absorb inorganic arsenic ...

Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Disaster Prediction and Prevention & Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China ...

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 ...

Xi’an AMS Center, State Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Technology and Application, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

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 ...

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