Plutonium can migrate downstream, enter water supplies, and be absorbed by plants, eventually making its way into the food ...

140 tonnes of plutonium is currently being stored at Sellafield, the nuclear site in Cumbria The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a ...

The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match the low isotopic ratios (below 0.07) from France's nuclear tests.

Those charges alone will get someone locked up for quite a long time—throw in another conviction for trying to offload thousands of pounds of uranium and weapons-grade plutonium, and it’s ...

The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a secure facility at Sellafield in Cumbria. The UK has the world's largest stockpile of the ...

The Rokkasho reprocessing plant is intended to separate plutonium from spent fuel for reuse as fuel. Company president Kenji Kudo told reporters at the company’s headquarters in Aomori, in northern ...

The purported leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges alleging that he conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the belief that Iran would use ...

A Japanese Yakuza leader has pleaded guilty to attempting to traffic weapons-grade plutonium for Iran’s nuclear weapons programme. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, faces life in prison after entering the ...

Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, of Japan, pleaded guilty in Manhattan, New York, to conspiring with a network of associates to traffic nuclear materials, including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium ...

A FEARED Japanese gang boss was plotting to traffic plutonium nuclear materials and several heavy-duty weapons to be used in wars. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, has been found guilty of transporting the ...

A GOVERNMENT announcement on the 'immobilisation' of the UK’s inventory of civil separated plutonium at Sellafield has been welcomed by leading figures in Cumbria. The decision which has also ...