Iraq has designed a crude nuclear bomb and has the equipment to build it but lacks the necessary uranium or other fissile material, a former Iraqi nuclear physicist who defected said Thursday. "I ...

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The United States is preparing to mine a rare nuclear resource from some of its most dangerous Cold War legacies, turning ...

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A recently passed resolution by San Diego County seeks partnerships with national labs and companies to reprocess the waste ...

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China is rapidly overhauling a network of secret facilities used to manufacture warhead components as it expands its nuclear stockpile faster than any other country, according to an analysis of ...

For 75 years, the Savannah River Site has been the keystone employer in Aiken’s local economy, but its mission has evolved ...

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It's the nation's largest multi-program science and technology laboratory. But nuclear science is its history — and its future.

The lab where Oppenheimer developed the atomic bomb is the linchpin in the United States’ effort to modernize its nuclear weapons. Yet the site has contended with contamination incidents, work ...

SEATTLE — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first atomic ...