Production of Pu-238 at SRS ended in 1988 as the Cold War came to a close ... Beginning in 1960, the Savannah River Site (SRS) helped meet this challenge by making plutonium-238 to fuel radioisotope ...

Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft executives should instead take a deep breath and begin reevaluating their options. Do they ...

As the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) awaits its marching orders from the Trump ...

The proposed plutonium pit facility at Savannah River Site will reconstruct a massive 500-room partially completely abandoned ...

Details are hard to come by – plutonium production methods tend to be somewhat closely guarded for national security reasons – but if the neptunium pellets turn out to perform well in the ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and environmental plaintiffs settled a lawsuit that could put a pause on ...

“Given this major legal victory, the public will now have the opportunity to formally comment on not only the environmental and health impacts of plutonium pit production but also the costly and ...

More than 60 residents of Livermore and the surrounding region turned out to a public meeting this week on the local lab's role in a nationwide program to enhance the production of plutonium weapons, ...

Photo ©High Flyer, 2020. Los Alamos National Lab is engaged in a rushed program to increase plutonium pit production for new nuclear weapons. Diagram of nuclear warhead, with plutonium pit.

After almost two months of negotiation, a compromise in an environmental lawsuit about plutonium pit production seems imminent. U.S. District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis ruled in September the ...