Federal memo urges increased plutonium pit production at LANL

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s deputy administrator for defense programs argued in a memo this month that Los Alamos National Laboratory should increase its annual production of ...

DOE announces decision to restart SRS facility that recycles plutonium

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management announced March 6 that it is restarting HB-Line operations at Savannah River Site to recycle surplus plutonium and ...
South Carolina Public Radio

NNSA Approves $1.4B Training Center at Savannah River Site

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has officially given the greenlight to start of construction on a massive new training hub.
Nuclear Engineering International

DOE to restart plutonium recycling

The US DOE is restarting HB-Line operations at Savannah River to recycle surplus plutonium and support MOX fuel production for advanced reactors.
Albuquerque Journal

In a looming nuclear arms race, aging Los Alamos faces a major test

In a sprawling building atop a mesa in New Mexico, workers labor around the clock to fulfill a vital mission: producing America’s nuclear bomb cores. The effort is uniquely challenging. Technicians at ...
The Atlantic

North Korea May Be Making Fuel for a Nuclear Reactor and It's No Joke

The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University reported today that North Korea may be making good on promises to develop nuclear arms, by producing fuel rods necessary for a plutonium reactor ...
C&EN

Hanford Site finally turns nuclear waste into glass

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started operating in October 2025. The history of the Hanford Site and the way the stored ...