The only problem is its radio active and that means that when it decays it tends to fall apart. It is of course Plutonium and here to spell it out is Cambridge University's Ian Farnan. Plutonium's ...

Ebisawa pleaded guilty to a total of six counts: conspiracy to commit international trafficking of nuclear materials, ...

The Rokkasho reprocessing plant is intended to separate plutonium from spent fuel for reuse as fuel. Company president Kenji Kudo told reporters at the company’s headquarters in Aomori, in northern ...

Plutonium can migrate downstream, enter water supplies, and be absorbed by plants, eventually making its way into the food ...

This, as he found out, isn’t something you should do lightly, as the one he used ended up containing an interesting mix of radioactive materials, including small amounts of plutonium-239 ...

Dec. 13—After almost two months of negotiation, a compromise in an environmental lawsuit about plutonium pit production seems imminent. U.S. District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis ruled in September the ...

A FEARED Japanese gang boss was plotting to traffic plutonium nuclear materials and several heavy-duty weapons to be used in ...

Beginning in the late 1950s, the U.S. met this challenge by developing nuclear batteries known as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and producing plutonium-238 (Pu-238) as their fuel, ...

Takeshi Ebisawa facing life in prison after admitting sourcing radioactive material to be used in nuclear programme ...

Researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have successfully synthesized a ...

The purported leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges alleging that he conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the belief that Iran would use ...