The organization also reported gaps in a safety analysis for the facility at the heart of LANL's pit production efforts.
Sixty years ago, the former Soviet Union started conducting nuclear tests in a remote area of Eastern Kazakhstan. Much of the plutonium residue never disappeared. When the Soviets pulled out it was ...
A packed and at times tense community meeting in San Francisco’s Hunters Point on Monday drew frustration from residents after learning the U.S. Navy waited 11 months to alert regulators about a test ...
Last week, residents were informed by the San Francisco Department of Health that a test taken in November 2024 at the former ...
Northern New Mexico journalist Alicia Inez Guzmán reported on the matter in a recent New York Times investigative feature.
The headline that Russia has formally withdrawn from a plutonium disposal agreement with the United States sounds very serious, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Once upon a time, in the 1990s, ...
President Trump’s proposal to repurpose the U.S. plutonium stockpile to fuel nuclear reactors resulted in a May 23, 2025, executive order directing the Department of Energy (DOE) to revisit disposal ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday terminating an already defunct plutonium disposal agreement with the United States that aimed to prevent both sides from building more nuclear ...