In this capacity he had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction and ...

A gallon of milk costs a dollar more than it did in March 2020. So does a pound of chicken, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And the receipt for the nation's nuclear program is following ...

NASA’s deep space ambitions are colliding with a harsh reality—the U.S. is nearly out of plutonium-238, the essential isotope ...

Production of Pu-238 at SRS ended in 1988 as the Cold War ... Beginning in 1960, the Savannah River Site (SRS) helped meet this challenge by making plutonium-238 to fuel radioisotope thermoelectric ...

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like plutonium, challenging traditional theories and possibly explaining strange cosmic ...

Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of ...

Heavy water can play a role in breeding weapons-grade plutonium from common uranium ... and various national governments monitor the production and distribution of heavy water.

But Miller’s alleged possession of highly radioactive plutonium did not capture the attention of federal agents at high levels, according to court records. A federal investigator told local ...

the separation and purification of plutonium and uranium; and the production and storage of solutions and oxides to be used as feed material to form fresh uranium oxide or MOX fuel.

Nichols, his diplomacy skills are stretched thin over plutonium production. At a June 1942, S-1 committee meeting Dr. Arthur Holly Compton and Col. Kenneth Nichols began a close working ...