A nuclear agreement with Iran hinges on the work of nuclear inspectors. Here's a close-up look at how they train to do their job. How Do You Find Plutonium? Go To Nuclear Inspector School No names. No ...

As the fuels of the space and atom age get more powerful, they also get harder to handle. Last week General Bernard Schriever, new chief of the Air Forces Research and Development Command, announced ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Scientists have solved a question about the nature of plutonium that has remained a mystery since the Manhattan Project. Plutonium behaves like no other element in nature. The ...

No names. No pictures. No direct conversation. And don't touch the plutonium. Those were the ground rules before NPR was allowed a rare opportunity to see nuclear inspectors learning their craft. The ...