Even before a radiation leak in February halted the flow of nuclear waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, the federal government had identified deficiencies in Los Alamos National ...

A new international standard for emergency preparedness and response in the event of a criticality accident at a nuclear facility has been issued by the International Organization for Standards (ISO).

Y-12 National Security Complex manager Consolidated Nuclear Security is revising its nuclear storage protocol after the discovery of unauthorized material in its fairly new Highly Enriched Uranium ...

The Department of Energy is scheduled to decide within days where plutonium parts for the next generation of nuclear weapons are to be made, but recent internal government reports indicate serious and ...

Gori Nuclear Power Plant Units 1, 2, 3, and 4 (from right) seen from a village in Gijang-gun, Busan./Courtesy of News1 The Nuclear Safety and Security Commission said on the 28th that it allowed ...

The University of Tennessee and United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR) have strengthened their 10-year formal partnership of ...

Much of the uranium deposits to be removed from the U.S. gaseous diffusion plant (GDP) cascades will be enriched in uranium-235 (235 U); at Oak Ridge and at Portsmouth GDPs, some will be highly ...

The Nuclear Safety And Security Commission announced that it allowed the criticality of the Hanbit Unit 2, which has been undergoing routine inspections since May 17, on the 14th. Criticality refers ...