The most dangerous object ever was made by accident and killed its makers. If you’re familiar with the Oscar award -winning ...

A middle-aged Japanese recently pleaded guilty to a strange crime: attempting to sell “weapons-grade plutonium” acquired in Myanmar to an Iranian general. Unfortunately, for the gangster, the “Iranian ...

A multibillion-pound plant to process plutonium is expected to bring thousands of skilled jobs in the coming decades, the government has said. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA ...

140 tonnes of plutonium is currently being stored at Sellafield, the nuclear site in Cumbria The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a ...

Plutonium is currently stored at Sellafield in a powder form but needs to be processed before it is disposed of A multibillion-pound plant to process plutonium is expected to bring thousands of ...

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 government has announced that the UK’s civil separated plutonium stocks will be immobilised at Sellafield before eventually being sent for geological disposal. Plutonium has accumulated at ...

The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has recently embarked on the “new Manhattan Project” — a hiring spree and ...

The current idea is to vitrify the plutonium – bake it into a ceramic glass, like material – and bury it 1000 metres below in a geological disposal facility (GDF). However, the UK currently possesses ...

The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match the low isotopic ratios (below 0.07) from France's nuclear tests.

Japan has again adjusted its plans for reprocessing used fuel and producing mixed oxide (MOX) fuel – its pluthermal ...

Ed Miliband has been warned he is throwing away “a valuable national resource” after ministers confirmed plans to bury Britain’s massive stockpile of plutonium. The Energy Secretary was ...