Multi-day fast-spectrum reactor experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Criticality Experiments Research Center generate modern benchmark data. The data supports Oklo’s ...
One of the most daunting scientific and engineering challenges today is ensuring the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear arsenal. To effectively meet that challenge, scientists need better ...
A Democratic senator is raising concerns that the Trump administration’s plans to let several private energy companies access ...
For years, the federal government has been working on turning old, unexploded warheads left over from the Cold War into a ...
The Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb wasn't without its own dangers. Experiments on a so-called "demon core" of plutonium caused the deaths of two Manhattan Project physicists. Both ...
South Korea more than 20 years ago secretly conducted an experiment with traces of plutonium, a key ingredient in making nuclear weapons, a senior Bush administration official disclosed Wednesday.