The US nuclear facility at Hanford, which turns radioactive waste into glass as part of its cleanup efforts, received a record $3.2 billion budget for 2026. This is the largest Congressional funding ...

SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first ...

Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Alarmingly high levels of plutonium-239 have been detected at the long troubled former Hunters Point Shipyard, prompting the San Francisco Department of Public Health to warn community groups about ...

VIENNA, Sept 2 (Reuters) - There is no sign North Korea reprocessed spent fuel from its main nuclear reactor into plutonium in the past year, but it seems to have continued to enrich uranium, the ...

A pair of lawmakers exhorted the Energy Department's top official to consider reining in a major nuclear arsenal modernization program amid long-running concerns over its cost and schedule performance ...

The skin of two workers in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility were contaminated in late November, according ...