Chemists have found a new use for the waste product of nuclear power – transforming an unused stockpile into a...
According to multiple media sources, North Korea’s foreign minister has been replaced in a major political reshuffle which could have a significant impact on the country’s...
The International Monitoring System is the top global seismic network for monitoring nuclear weapon tests around the world. To expand the system’s detection capabilities, however, international...
The seventh International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification (IPNDV) plenary meeting brought 89 representatives from 24 countries, plus the European Union, to Ottawa, Canada from December...
A first-of-its-kind biological dosimetry service in Costa Rica — and the only one of its kind in Central America — is now ready to assess people...
The SPARCS equipment will be used to enhance mobile radiation detection and support major public events that will strengthen the radiological and nuclear incident. NNSA’s Office...
NNSA joins partner countries for first-ever international symposium on securely transporting nuclear and radioactive materials Representatives from NNSA joined more than 30 partner countries in Tokyo...
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could, over the span of less than a week, kill 50-125 million people–more than the death toll during all...
North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It subsequently developed nuclear weapons, with five underground nuclear tests culminating in...
Picture a swarm of autonomous, three-foot rolling robots armed with smart detectors to support nuclear safeguards and verify arms-control agreements. The prototype of such robots, being...
Students from across the United States recently attended Nuclear Weapons Accident / Incident Response Training (NWIRT) training at Warren Air Force Base, WY September 24-26. Hosted...
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this week unveiled a new laboratory building that substantially enhances the U.S. government’s ability...
Over the past century, military leaders and policy makers in the United States have sought to answer similar questions with seminar style discussions or table top...
The operator of Japan’s ruined Fukushima nuclear power plant began removing the first of 566 spent and unspent radioactive fuel rods stored in a pool at...
Forty years ago, on March 28, 1979, there was a partial meltdown of a reactor at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County,...
