If the U.S. does drop a powerful "bunker buster" bomb on a suspected underground nuclear weapons site in Iran, experts in radiation hazards see little risk of widespread contamination. The site in ...

Uranium enrichment is a critical process that increases the concentration of Uranium-235, essential for both nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons. Various methods exist for enriching uranium, ...

ASP Isotopes Inc. (NASDAQ: ASPI) (“ASPI”) today announced that a UK subsidiary of Quantum Leap Energy LLC (“QLE”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of ASPI dedicated to advancing innovative technologies and ...

Reducing the use of highly enriched uranium (HEU) can lower the likelihood of adversaries obtaining a nuclear material that can be used in an improvised nuclear explosive. With this objective in mind, ...

Federal and state officials working with the U.S. Department of Energy are celebrating the completion of the removal of a ...

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Additional funding expected to expedite Project F.U.E.L. (Future Uranium Enrichment with Lasers) development and the construction of LIST Island at the historic K-25 Site in Oak Ridge, TN. Oak Ridge, ...

More common than gold, uranium is abundant on Earth. But less than one percent of the naturally occurring element is useful for nuclear power.Uranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth, a ...