Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have, for the first time, used a breakthrough technique with a goal of better identifying the origin of nuclear materials—a tool that could someday help ...

RICHLAND, Wash. - The Hanford Site recently completed a transfer of the first batch of radioactive capsules from underwater ...

Darleane C. Hoffman, a trailblazing nuclear chemist who was hailed by Discover magazine as one of the 50 most important women in science and whose research confirmed the existence of several elusive ...

Dawn Shaughnessy is the division leader of the Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. She was a student and colleague of Hoffman for 32 years.

Nuclear forensics is the examination and evaluation of discovered or seized nuclear materials and devices or, in cases of nuclear explosions or radiological dispersals, of detonation signals and ...

Lawmakers will consider draft legislation this week that would allow manufacturers of “advanced nuclear reactors” to store high-level radioactive waste at their Wyoming facilities. It would be the ...