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 ...

A person reflects in the window of the U.S. Department of Energy, with the official portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump on the wall, following a partial government shutdown in Washington, D.C., ...

Public health advocates say the US Navy knew for almost a year that tests had detected dangerous levels of plutonium in the air at San Francisco’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The Navy discovered the ...

Building 104, a former naval reserve center, still houses many artists, despite no running water, heat, and proximity to toxic waste. Pictured on April 26, 2025. Photo by Marina Newman. At a Board of ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has reportedly decided that weapon-grade plutonium from the Cold War-era stockpile could be turned into nuclear reactor fuel. The DOE will give American companies ...

Washington’s gamble on metallic fast reactors could turn bomb metal into centuries of power. In October 2025, the US Department of Energy launched an unprecedented offer: 19.7 tons of surplus ...

The Trump Administration is proposing to make 20 metric tons of plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads available to U.S. power firms for use in advanced nuclear reactors. This plan follows an ...