The Trump administration has announced that it has selected several nuclear start-ups to participate in a project that would ...

Weapons-grade plutonium can fuel nuclear reactors known as mixed oxide reactors, but none of these exist in the U.S.

One portion of a gargantuan plan to modernize the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal, costing $1.5 trillion over the next twenty years, has been opened for public scrutiny and comment beginning this week.

The Trump administration is planning to give surplus plutonium from dismantled nuclear bombs to new nuclear startup companies.

Experts warn any new Iran deal must ban plutonium reprocessing and expose covert pathways to nuclear weapons, citing risks tied to Bushehr and Arak nuclear facilities.

Built as a backup plutonium core for a possible third atomic bomb against Japan, the object later known as the Demon Core ...

This initiative follows reports last year that the administration of Donald Trump planned to make approximately 20 metric ...

Iran and the United States are in discussions to extend their ceasefire so as to start negotiations on issues including ...

That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a ...

Left behind after the ‘Trinity” bomb test was a glass-like material that came to be known as trinitite. It had formed when ...

Nearly 81 years ago, the first nuclear bomb exploded. The Trinity test, conducted as part of the Manhattan Project in the New Mexico desert, detonated a plutonium bomb that released the energy of 25 ...