The Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office said that ... Administration are slated to begin producing plutonium pits once again in an effort to build up nuclear ...

A gallon of milk costs a dollar more than it did in March 2020. So does a pound of chicken, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And the receipt for the nation's nuclear program is following ...

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 ...

Two workers suffered skin contamination in separate incidents last month at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility, the latest in a series of worker-safety lapses at the lab.

Groups like Earth Care, the county and city and others are organizing a myriad of events to engage with and support the ...

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 ...

The so-called Demon Core was a cursed object, a 6.2 kilogram mass of plutonium intended to be ... Credit: Public Domain, Los Alamos National Laboratory Creator [skelly] has designed the lamp ...

SRPPF is one prong of a two-part National Nuclear Security Administration effort to reestablish plutonium ... 80 pits per year by the mid-2030s, with 50 pits being built at SRPPF. Los Alamos ...

"The creation of heavy elements such as uranium and plutonium necessitates extreme conditions," said Matthew Mumpower, physicist at Los Alamos. "There are only a few viable yet rare scenarios in ...

including the United States at Los Alamos National April 16, 2025 • The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) promised the People of New Mexico thatit would cleanup and dispose of its plutonium ...

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 ...