U.S. Underestimates Peril if Los Alamos Were to Leak Plutonium, Study Says

An accident at the lab that produces America’s nuclear bomb cores could lead to more fatalities than previously estimated by ...
Foreign Policy Research Institute

In The Latest Russia-Belarus Non-Strategic Nuclear Exercise, Putin and Lukashenka Show Teeth

May, Belarus and Russia announced that they would conduct military exercises involving the delivery of nuclear weapons to ...
Purdue University

At the nation’s only all-digital nuclear reactor, engineers conduct the first experiments of their kind in the U.S.

Purdue University Reactor Number One has specific features that no other reactor in the U.S. has. Purdue’s reactor is ...
Tech Xplore

New pellet-making method points to safer, more predictable high-explosive manufacturing

For decades, manufacturing plastic-bonded high explosives, or PBXs, has relied on legacy processes like slurry coating. In ...

America’s nuclear resurgence requires more than new reactors

The reactors are coming. Now comes the harder part: ensuring we have the fuel, workforce, supply chains, and industrial ...
Interesting Engineering

Nuclear plant given life extension to power 2,500,000 homes for 20 more years

As of today, the Sizewell B nuclear plant provides approximately three percent of the country's total electricity needs.
The New York Times

Trump’s Plans for Nuclear Power Lurch Ahead

Recent technological advances have brought the president’s goals a bit closer to reality. By Claire Brown President Trump wants to quadruple nuclear power production in the United States by 2050. To ...