The proposed plutonium pit facility at Savannah River Site will reconstruct a massive 500-room partially completely abandoned ...

A public hearing Tuesday in Santa Fe is one of several opportunities for people to weigh in on a draft environmental ...

Photo ©High Flyer, 2020. Los Alamos National Lab is engaged in a rushed program to increase plutonium pit production for new nuclear weapons. Diagram of nuclear warhead, with plutonium pit.

No immediate changes to the Savannah River Site's role are expected with new Energy Secretary Chris Wright confirmation.

Coghlan said there were fewer opportunities to press pause at the New Mexico site, which is further along with pit production; LANL completed its first diamond-stamped plutonium pit in October.

Jan. 17—The National Nuclear Security Administration and anti-nuclear advocates have reached agreement in a lawsuit over the National Environmental Protection Act that could temporarily halt plutonium ...

Here are four takeaways from Tuesday's town hall: 1. The lab successfully built the first new plutonium pit In 2024, Los Alamos made the first production unit for the W87-1 warhead. It was ...

Jan. 22—Los Alamos National Laboratory is planning to further the field of artificial intelligence and will increase its capacity for manufacturing new plutonium pits in the coming year, according to ...

If approved, the proposed agreement, reached Thursday, would leave Los Alamos National Laboratory as the agency’s only pit production ... of deciding to produce plutonium pits, the trigger ...

Concerns center on the health and environmental dangers of plutonium, a key ingredient in pits. Plutonium, in addition to its usefulness in making weapons, can cause cancer in people who are ...