Georgia has detained two people for handling and attempting to sell $3 million worth of uranium which could have been used to make a deadly bomb, the national security service said on Thursday.

By figuring out fission, physicists were able to split uranium atoms and release massive amounts of energy. This Manhattan Project work paved the way both for atomic bombs and nuclear power reactors.

But uranium isn’t just fuel for apocalyptic fears. It’s also a surprisingly common element that plays a crucial role in modern energy, medicine and geopolitics. Uranium reentered the global spotlight ...

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, a half-dozen workers are making what appear to be gray billiard balls.

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...

Before the nuclear age, uranium was thought to be the end of the periodic table, but in the last 70 years, scientists have left nature behind and created 26 new elements.

Here’s how a nuclear bomb actually works. The B61 and the B83 nuclear bombs currently in the United States’ arsenal are thermonuclear, or hydrogen bombs, and quite different than the fission weapons ...

Today marks the 75 th anniversary of the Chicago Pile-1 chain reaction, a scientific breakthrough that made nuclear power and weaponry possible. It also opened up entire new avenues of research in ...

WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) - Former U.S. State Department and nuclear regulatory officials on Tuesday urged the U.S. Energy Department to reconsider a plan to use bomb-grade uranium in a nuclear ...

The daughter of an Oak Ridge engineer seeks to understand her father's role in the Manhattan Project—and fills unknowns with ...

Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the ...

Thorium reactor by-products cannot make nuclear bombs since the wrong isotopes are produced. They produce less radioactive waste, and these by-products are safe after about 100 years, versus ...