The federal government will hold the second of five nationwide public hearings in Kansas City on Thursday, May 7. Local ...

The federal government says increasing production of the cores of nuclear weapons is needed for “weapons modernization,” ...

Public hearing in KC: Residents and activists met with federal officials to discuss a $5 billion-a-year plan to boost plutonium pit production for nuclear weapons. Venezuela’s reactor removal: ...

Kansas City residents met with federal nuclear officials to discuss a plan to boost plutonium pit production for U.S. nuclear weapons, a project costing $5 billion annually over six years. The ...

Federal officials, environmental advocates, and community members gathered in North Augusta for a public hearing on proposed plutonium pit production at the Savannah River Site. The meeting comes as t ...

One portion of a gargantuan plan to modernize the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal, costing $1.5 trillion over the next twenty years, has been opened for ...

SEATTLE — New batches of plutonium-238 may become available to NASA starting in 2017, perhaps preventing feared shortages of this vital spacecraft power source. The United States has not produced ...