The production of plutonium pits—the fissile cores required to detonate the explosion in a nuclear weapon—is said to be the chokepoint of America’s nuclear program: when the pit assembly ...

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions President and CEO Dennis Carr plans to retire. The company will looking for a new leader for ...

A gallon of milk costs a dollar more than it did in March 2020. So does a pound of chicken, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And the receipt for the nation's nuclear program is following ...

New security environment. Right now, the NNSA is in the middle of an unnecessary multi-billion-dollar effort to build new and expanded facilities that will produce plutonium pits for new nuclear ...

Concerns center on the health and environmental dangers of plutonium, a key ingredient in pits. Plutonium, in addition to its usefulness in making weapons, can cause cancer in people who are ...

Plutonium 239 – a manmade element named for Pluto, the Roman god of Hell – remains lethal beyond its half-life of 24,000 years. A single particle in body tissue will cause cancer, and its genetic ...