Mr Miliband will ultimately be responsible for deciding what is done with the plutonium - Lauren Hurley/DESNZ Ed Miliband has been urged to preserve a 140-tonne stockpile of radioactive plutonium ...

The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a secure facility at Sellafield in Cumbria. The UK has the world's largest stockpile of the ...

The two workers who took the brunt of contamination during a release of radioactivity in a 2021 incident within the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power reactor have sued Energy Northwest. The ...

Climate change increasingly threatens some of the nation’s most sensitive sites, including research laboratories, military facilities and power plants with radioactive material. Extreme heat and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being considered by the administration of President Donald Trump on ...

As Texas wildfires burned toward the nation’s primary nuclear weapons facility, workers hurried to ensure nothing flammable was around buildings and storage areas. When the fires showed no sign of ...

Months before the spacecraft Cassini was launched from Cape Canaveral nearly seven years ago, controversy flared across the country over the plutonium fuel that would generate power for the spacecraft ...

To ensure they got the right items, the specialists from Idaho brought radiation detectors and small samples of dangerous materials to calibrate them: specifically, a plastic-covered disk of plutonium ...