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Aiken City Council finishes spending plutonium settlement funds
The Post and Courier· 5 days agoThe Aiken City Council has spent the last of the $25 million the city received from the state's ...
When telling the history of plutonium, tell the full story — including the atrocities | Opinion
Tri-City Herald via Yahoo News· 5 days agoTell the whole story of plutonium’s use Our entire region should be extremely proud of the B...
Getting a peek inside Hanford's B Reactor before it closes for two years
Yakima Herald-Republic· 19 hours agoThe clock shows when B Reactor "went critical" for the first time at 10:48 p.m. on Sept. 26, 1944....
Technical troubles halt new tests at huge Eastern WA radioactive waste melter
Miami Herald via AOL· 15 hours agoThe waste is left from chemically processing uranium fuel irradiated at the Hanford site adjacent to...
Send all the Marines to the Pacific, a top Trump adviser says
Politico via Yahoo News· 3 days agoO’Brien also said if China and Russia continue to “refuse to engage in good-faith arms control...
Former top official with ‘most important, difficult job’ at Hanford nuclear site dies
Tri-City Herald McClatchy via AOL· 7 days agoThe Hanford site Department of Energy manager who led much of the transition from weapons plutonium...
LANL plans to release highly radioactive tritium to prevent explosions. Will it just release danger...
Carlsbad Current-Argus via Yahoo News· 7 days agoAt the heart of the contention was tritium, an element that, by mass, is 150,000 times more...
This new technology for nuclear power could help fuel the AI revolution
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 day agoTransmutex avoids this risk because it doesn't produce plutonium, a key element for making nuclear...
Edward Stone, who guided NASA’s Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88
Washington Post· 4 days agoEdward C. Stone, who opened a window on the farthest reaches of the solar system while serving as the chief scientist of NASA’s Voyager mission, supervising a pair of spindly, plutonium ...
Opinion | The Human Toll of Nuclear Testing
New York Times· 1 day agoIt’s here, amid the sunbaked flats, that the United States conducted 928 nuclear tests during the Cold War above and below ground. The site is mostly...