Plutonium is not a fun word to speak, hear, or write. Used to depict an actinide metal we've known about for some time, it has become synonymous with human-caused destruction on a hard-to-comprehend ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mr Miliband will ultimately be responsible for deciding what is done with the plutonium - Lauren Hurley/DESNZ Ed Miliband has been ...

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 ...

Oxidation is the process where atoms lose electrons during a chemical reaction. Among the radioactive elements, neptunium and plutonium are much harder to oxidize than uranium. To study these elements ...

The San Francisco Health Department is sounding the alarm over high levels of radioactive “plutonium 239” detected in the air in Hunters Point. Plutonium 239 is used for nuclear weapons and has been ...

The Trump administration is planning to give surplus plutonium from dismantled nuclear bombs to new nuclear startup companies ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being considered by the administration of President Donald Trump on ...

The U.S. has embarked on the largest and most expensive nuclear build-out ever. The U.S. military says it is necessary to replace an aging nuclear arsenal. But critics fear the risks. This article is ...