The FBI has seized the notorious RAMP cybercrime forum, a platform used to advertise a wide range of malware and hacking services, and one of the few remaining forums that openly allowed the promotion ...

The skin of two workers in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility were contaminated in late November, according to a Dec. 5 Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board report. On Nov. 21, a ...

Nuclear start-up Oklo Inc. (OKLO) sits at the center of a policy shift that is transforming surplus plutonium from a Cold War liability into a potential energy asset. Federal direction now favors ...

A portion of "problematic plutonium" has safely been processed into a stable waste form in a UK first, a nuclear disposal group has said. The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said the can ...

Multi-day fast-spectrum reactor experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Criticality Experiments Research Center generate modern benchmark data. The data supports Oklo’s ...

Plutonium is considered a fascinating element. It was first chemically isolated in 1941 at the University of California, but its discovery was hidden until after the Second World War. There are six ...

Public health officials in San Francisco said no “immediate action” is needed to protect public safety after airborne plutonium was detected in the city. In 2024, the radioactive substance Pu-239 was ...

The accompanying protocols are denounced along with it. Russia's dictator Vladimir Putin has signed a law denouncing the agreement with the United States on the disposal of plutonium, as well as ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US has offered energy companies access to nuclear waste that they can convert into fuel for advanced ...

President Trump’s proposal to repurpose the U.S. plutonium stockpile to fuel nuclear reactors resulted in a May 23, 2025, executive order directing the Department of Energy (DOE) to revisit disposal ...

Russia's lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved a move to withdraw from a landmark agreement with the United States aimed at reducing vast stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium left over from ...