Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are hoping ... as the lab was planning to ramp its production of plutonium pits used to trigger warheads. Transuranic (TRU) waste from the lab and ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – New findings from a study aimed at researching how much plutonium is in the ground ... dollars to create even more nuclear “pit” cores – the main component ...

The B Reactor Museum Association (BRMA) is hosting an event to uncover the secret WWII mission of transporting plutonium from ...

The bulk of the DOE’s nuclear work is done by around 60,000 contract workers. The people who build the missiles, dig the silos, and construct submarines are people working for a federal contractor.

Minesh Bacrania In February 1943, the Los Alamos Ranch School, an outdoorsy institution for boys, abruptly closed its doors so the U.S. government could take over the campus. A local poet named ...

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions CEO Dennis Carr said he expects the site's workforce to increase from 12,000 people to ...

Her husband Joseph, a radiochemist and co-discoverer of plutonium, led the chemistry division at Los Alamos. Later, military police took over the mail, all of which was censored and routed both ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. LOS ALAMOS — Standing outside the former home of J. Robert Oppenheimer, recently confirmed U.S. Energy ...

In mid-July 1945, American scientists had trucked the five-ton mechanism from their secret laboratory at Los Alamos ... chain reaction in a sphere of plutonium no larger than a baseball that ...

a key facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The RLWTF treats liquid radioactive and hazardous waste generated at the Plutonium Facility from the fabrication of plutonium pits ...