Los Alamos National Laboratory is exceeding pit production targets, Director Thom Mason said during a Tuesday town hall meeting, where he gave roughly 80 online attendees an update on lab operations.

In a sprawling building atop a mesa in New Mexico, workers labor around the clock to fulfill a vital mission: producing America’s nuclear bomb cores. The effort is uniquely challenging. Technicians at ...

Los Alamos National Laboratory will be getting new supercomputers, making more plutonium pits and will play a role in pushing forward artificial intelligence development, the lab director shared ...

SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, S.C. — The National Nuclear Security Administration released a draft programmatic environmental impact statement outlining how plutonium pits would be produced at two sites: Los ...

The U.S. has for almost a decade been on a cross-country nuclear weapons odyssey known as plutonium pit production. The project to pump out cores for nuclear warheads in South Carolina and New Mexico, ...