Plutonium News

NASA's new rover Curiosity is equipped with a plutonium nuclear energy source to power the probe as it explores the surface of Mars.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant announced plans to scrap at least four damaged reactors at the crippled Fukushima plant.

Thousands of Japanese farmers and fishermen face bleak and uncertain future after authorities announced soil near the site of the badly-damaged Fukushima Nuclear Power plant has been contaminated with Plutonium

Tokyo - Soil samples taken from five separate locations around the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) nuclear power plant showed the presence of Plutonium, officials confirmed on Monday.

Iran is currently testing its newly built nuclear power plant amid opposition from concerned nations including the US and Israel because of fears that Iran will use its waste materials in building nuclear warheads.

IAEA has discovered plutonium and enriched uranium traces in a nuclear waste facility in Iran.