The Trump administration envisions making at least 80 plutonium pits a year at Los Alamos National Laboratory, according to ...
India can make a plutonium nuclear bomb, said Pakistan’s arms control adviser, raising questions over India’s Prototype Fast ...
The National Nuclear Security Administration may be one step closer to expanding plutonium pit production at a South Carolina ...
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NASA’s plutonium-238 supply crunch could limit future deep-space missions
A rare radioactive isotope stands between NASA and its next generation of deep-space exploration. Plutonium-238, the fuel ...
India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor symbolizes nuclear ambition but raises critical concerns over transparency, ...
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Radioisotope power systems (RPS) keep spacecraft going with nuclear batteries. Until now, RPS operated using a plutonium isotope, but researchers have found that an isotope of americium could keep ...
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), whose tenth review conference is coming up in August, is in trouble, and not only because of the crescendo of complaints about the failure of the ...
A chemistry professor created a plutonium compound that behaves much more like lighter elements, giving scientists new information about how this element works. Plutonium has long been part of many ...
In 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft left Earth on a five-year mission to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Thirty-six years later, the car-size probe is still exploring, still sending its findings home. It ...
Plutonium can be used to make nuclear bombs. But it can also be recycled and used as a fuel in nuclear reactors. According to the authors of a Nature editorial, the UK—which has the largest civilian ...
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