Plutonium Found at Former San Francisco Naval Shipyard – Navy Faces Cover-Up Claims

Shocking detection of plutonium-239 at Hunters Point sparks outrage over Navy's 11-month delay. Explore health risks, ...
Regtechtimes on MSN

Navy delay sparks outrage after plutonium detected near homes, park and planned 10,000-unit development

Public health advocates say the US Navy knew for almost a year that tests had detected dangerous levels of plutonium in the ...
The National Interest on MSN

America’s Plutonium Puzzle: From Cold War Relics to AI Ambitions

Washington’s gamble on metallic fast reactors and the use of plutonium in them could turn bomb metal into centuries of power.
Yahoo

Trump orders excess plutonium to be reprocessed for nuclear fuel, not stored at WIPP

A plan to dilute and dispose of excess plutonium dating back to the Cold War was frozen by an executive order President Donald Trump issued late last month. Instead, the order directs Energy Secretary ...
Post and Courier

Yes, plutonium from SC is still in Nevada. The Energy Department is working on it.

Sometime in 2018, a cache of defense plutonium was clandestinely shipped from the Savannah River Site south of Aiken to the Nevada National Security Site, an installation near Las Vegas that has for ...
The Daily of the University of Washington

The legacy of the Second World War in Washington

When visiting the towns of Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland, remnants of the war are clear as the legacy of the atomic bomb ...
The State

Feds to pay SC $600 million in settlement over deadly atomic material at weapons site

The U.S. Department of Energy says it will pay South Carolina $600 million for the government’s failure to remove bomb-grade plutonium from a nuclear weapons complex that was stuck with the material ...