Last week U.S. District Judge Mary Lewis Geiger, South Carolina, faulted the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency for ignoring the National Environmental Protection Act and ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) released its draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for national production of up to 205 plutonium pits per year (ppy) on April 10 ...

As of this past Labor Day, there are strong indications that future workers at the planned, new Savannah River Plutonium Processing Plant (SRPPF) may face unnecessary, increased risks of exposure to ...

Apr. 22—The head of U.S. Strategic Command in rounds of congressional testimony this week described renewed plutonium pit production efforts as vital to the nation's nuclear arsenal and, as a result, ...

Will production of plutonium pits used in nuclear warheads shift from New Mexico to the Savannah River Site? One nuclear watchdog group fears so, based on remarks made during a recent nuclear ...

Environmentalists touring the future plutonium pit plant at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina say retrofitting the facility could cost taxpayers over $30 billion, far above initial estimates.

AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — In a story May 12 about the proposed production of pits at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, The Associated Press reported erroneously that pits were planned to store ...

Work continues at the Savannah River Site to transform the Mixed-Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility into a plutonium pit production facility. The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental ...

A pair of lawmakers exhorted the Energy Department's top official to consider reining in a major nuclear arsenal modernization program amid long-running concerns over its cost and schedule performance ...

Los Alamos National Laboratory reached what federal officials say is a key milestone in developing its first plutonium pit that can be placed in a nuclear warhead as it seeks to produce 30 of the bomb ...