No names. No pictures. No direct conversation. And don't touch the plutonium. Those were the ground rules before NPR was allowed a rare opportunity to see nuclear inspectors learning their craft. The ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Scientists have solved a question about the nature of plutonium that has remained a mystery since the Manhattan Project. Plutonium behaves like no other element in nature. The ...

As the fuels of the space and atom age get more powerful, they also get harder to handle. Last week General Bernard Schriever, new chief of the Air Forces Research and Development Command, announced ...

A new method developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory proves one effort’s trash is another’s valuable isotope. One of the byproducts of the Department of Energy lab’s national plutonium-238 ...

The post cold-war world needs to plan what to do with plutonium as the stockpiles of nuclear warheads are dismantled. The Department of Energy has considered MOX and “down-blending” as possible ...

YAKIMA -- Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation have finished transferring liquid radioactive waste from a plutonium finishing plant to underground waste storage tanks. Work to transfer the waste ...

A nuclear agreement with Iran hinges on the work of nuclear inspectors. Here's a close-up look at how they train to do their job. How Do You Find Plutonium? Go To Nuclear Inspector School No names. No ...