The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced it has succeeded in safely processing a can of plutonium residue into a ...

Plutonium may be the most feared and fearsome substance in the entire periodic table. It's best known as the main ingredient of atomic bombs like the infamous Fat Man, dropped on Nagasaki on 9 August ...

An Indian Express report in 1978 said that a lost plutonium-powered monitoring device planted atop the Nanda Devi mountain by ...

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All countries that use nuclear power face the problem of how to dispose of their hazardous waste. In addition to the highly radioactive fission products at its Sellafield nuclear installation, the UK ...

On July 17, the United Kingdom ended 58 years of plutonium separation for nuclear fuel by closing its Magnox nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield. This leaves the UK with the world’s largest ...

Plutonium is a radioactive, silver metal that can be used to create or destroy. While it was used for destruction soon after it was made, today the element is used mostly for creating energy ...

On Thursday, NASA is expected to launch its new Mars rover, Perseverance, on a mission to search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. It’s the agency’s largest and most autonomous Martian ...