San Francisco officials say they weren’t told that the Navy detected plutonium at the Hunters Point Shipyard for 11 months.

More than a half century after the U.S. ignited 67 atomic weapons in the central Pacific Ocean, a former Navy base in the Bay ...

P ublic health officials in San Francisco said no "immediate action" is needed to protect public safety after airborne ...

The San Francisco Health Department is sounding the alarm over high levels of radioactive "plutonium 239" detected in the air ...

San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Susan Philip said plutonium was found at the decommissioned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard ...

According to a notice warning community groups in neighborhoods around the defunct base, the Navy notified the San Francisco Department of Public Health only this month about elevated levels of ...

Northern New Mexico journalist Alicia Inez Guzmán reported on the matter in a recent New York Times investigative feature.

Oklo is using its fast-track authorization from the DOE to build plutonium-fueled reactors, turning a liability into a bridge ...

Turning a Cold War relic into American kilowatts is not just smart, it is patriotic, profitable, and long overdue.

Plutonium can be used to make nuclear bombs. But it can also be recycled and used as a fuel in nuclear reactors. According to the authors of a Nature editorial, the UK—which has the largest civilian ...