Plutonium 'pits' and Small Modular Reactors are all part of Energy Secretary Chris Wright's early goals for his department.

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions CEO Dennis Carr said he expects the site's workforce to increase from 12,000 people to ...

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said rebooting plutonium pit production is key to bringing nuclear power forward for energy ...

Under the first Trump administration, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) sought to meet the Pentagon’s goal of manufacturing 80 such pits – spherical hulls of plutonium sized ...

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.

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.