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

The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group has delivered a UK-first nuclear safety milestone, by safely ...

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

A covert CIA operation in 1965 left a plutonium-powered surveillance device lost on India's Nanda Devi, sparking ongoing ...

AT THE height of the Cold War, a covert CIA mission in the Indian Himalayas ended with a startling failure: the disappearance of a plutonium-powered nuclear device on one of the world’s highest ...

CIA's 1965 nuclear generator, packed with Nagasaki-level plutonium, lost forever on India's Nanda Devi peak. Avalanche buried ...

In 1965, at the height of Cold War anxieties over China’s nascent nuclear programme, the CIA and India’s Intelligence Bureau ...

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey alleged that former PMs Nehru and Indira Gandhi allowed a CIA nuclear device on Nanda Devi, which was ...

In a shocking revelation on 27 November 2025, airborne plutonium was detected at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, sparking Navy cover-up claims amid health risks to the ...

The San Francisco Health Department is sounding the alarm over high levels of radioactive plutonium-239 (Pu-239) detected in the air in Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Plutonium 239 is a radioactive ...

"If there were adults in the room and I could trust the federal government to impose the right standards, it wouldn't be such a great concern, but it just doesn't seem feasible." In one of his wildest ...

What we know so far: The United States is opening part of its Cold War – era plutonium stockpile to help reduce reliance on Russian uranium and speed development of next-generation nuclear reactors.