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 ...

During an undercover investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 2021, Takeshi Ebisawa tried to sell the materials – including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium – to ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected a facility that produces nuclear material and called for bolstering the country’s ...

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 ...

Prosecutors say Ebisawa then offered to supply the supposed Iranian general with "plutonium" that would be even "better" and more "powerful" than uranium for this purpose. With two other co ...

The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at Sellafield.

The UK’s plutonium stocks will be immobilised at Sellafield before eventually being sent for geological disposal ...

The third cycle of tests of MOX fuel in the MIR research reactor is to begin following the successful completion of the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

They announced that Ebisawa pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday to leading the operation, which involved uranium, plutonium, heroin, methamphetamine, and U.S.-made surface-to ...