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 ...

North Korea on Thursday handed documents about its nuclear program to officials from China, a step North Korea agreed to take during six-nation talks aimed at persuading it to end ...

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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration plans to make available about 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to U.S. power companies as a potential fuel for ...

The Trump Administration is proposing to make 20 metric tons of plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads available to U.S. power firms for use in advanced nuclear reactors. This plan follows an ...

Washington may finally be on the verge of doing something smart. After decades of handwringing over what to do with America’s stockpile of Cold War plutonium, policymakers are talking about turning it ...

Plutonium has captured the attention of scientists since its discovery in the early 1940s. This enigmatic element has an important role to play in emerging energy technologies like nuclear batteries ...