Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are hoping ... as the lab was planning to ramp its production of plutonium pits used to trigger warheads. Transuranic (TRU) waste from the lab and ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – New findings from a study aimed at researching how much plutonium is in the ground ... dollars to create even more nuclear “pit” cores – the main component ...

The bulk of the DOE’s nuclear work is done by around 60,000 contract workers. The people who build the missiles, dig the silos, and construct submarines are people working for a federal contractor.

Minesh Bacrania In February 1943, the Los Alamos Ranch School, an outdoorsy institution for boys, abruptly closed its doors so the U.S. government could take over the campus. A local poet named ...

The so-called Demon Core was a cursed object, a 6.2 kilogram mass of plutonium intended to be ... Credit: Public Domain, Los Alamos National Laboratory Creator [skelly] has designed the lamp ...

Two workers suffered skin contamination in separate incidents last month at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility, the latest in a series of worker-safety lapses at the lab.

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. LOS ALAMOS — Standing outside the former home of J. Robert Oppenheimer, recently confirmed U.S. Energy ...

a key facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The RLWTF treats liquid radioactive and hazardous waste generated at the Plutonium Facility from the fabrication of plutonium pits ...

Santa Fe County commissioners plan to raise concerns about the impacts a potential Los Alamos National Laboratory ... national lab's goals related to plutonium pit production for nuclear bomb ...