The world’s first production scale reactor built at the Hanford nuclear site near Richland in Eastern Washington changed the ...

In a major decision whose consequences are still being assessed, a federal judge declared that plutonium pit production — one ...

It produced the plutonium needed for the first Soviet nuclear bomb - which is why Moscow hid the accident for so long. It’s still impossible to know how many people died, because the Soviet ...

“The design and construction work on the proposed ... the DOE/NNSA environmental reviews of their plans to build new plutonium bomb cores for nuclear weapons at both Savannah River Site and ...

Once they accumulated enough fissionable material (U-235 or plutonium), it should not have been hard to make an atomic bomb. In quantities below a certain amount (the “critical mass ...

Los Alamos National Laboratory has successfully manufactured the first approved plutonium pit as part of ... it had “diamond-stamped” the new bomb core the day before, essentially deeming ...

can be uranium or plutonium. There must be a chemical explosive to start the nuclear reaction, and there may be some empty space. Encasing the early bombs was a large mass of “tamper,” i.e., a ...

Terumi Tanaka was 13 when a U.S. warplane dropped a plutonium bomb on the southern Japanese city of Nagasaki, on Aug. 9, 1945. Sitting at home with a book that morning, Tanaka knew instantly when ...

Named the “Blue Gerboise”, it was the first atomic bomb tested by France, and of hitherto unrivaled power. This 70 kiloton plutonium bomb was launched in the early morning, in the Reggane ...

Miller: After the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki with plutonium that was made here ... Franklin: This was a graduate course with the School of Design and Construction, teaching architecture MAs ...