Public health advocates say the US Navy knew for almost a year that tests had detected dangerous levels of plutonium in the air at San Francisco’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The Navy discovered the ...

At a Board of Supervisors hearing on Monday, representatives from the U.S. Navy reassured San Francisco city officials that the discovery of radioactive contaminants at the Hunters Point Naval ...

Washington’s gamble on metallic fast reactors could turn bomb metal into centuries of power. In October 2025, the US Department of Energy launched an unprecedented offer: 19.7 tons of surplus ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has reportedly decided that weapon-grade plutonium from the Cold War-era stockpile could be turned into nuclear reactor fuel. The DOE will give American companies ...

The skin of two workers in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility were contaminated in late November, according to a Dec. 5 Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board report. On Nov. 21, a ...

The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced it has succeeded in safely processing a can of plutonium residue into a stable waste form for the first time, marking a significant step toward ...