"If there were adults in the room and I could trust the federal government to impose the right standards, it wouldn't be such ...

The U.S. Department of Energy expects to begin announcing by December 31 which companies will take about 19.7 metric tons of ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has reportedly decided that weapon-grade plutonium from the Cold War-era stockpile could be turned into nuclear reactor fuel. The DOE will give American companies ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved a move to withdraw from a landmark agreement with the United States aimed at reducing vast stockpiles of weapons-grade ...

Investing.com-- The U.S. has offered energy companies access to nuclear waste that can be converted into fuel for advanced reactors, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

Fast reactor start-ups Oklo, newcleo, and Blykalla have announced a joint $2bn investment to build advanced fuel ...

Plutonium can be used to make nuclear bombs. But it can also be recycled and used as a fuel in nuclear reactors. According to the authors of a Nature editorial, the UK—which has the largest civilian ...

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The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), whose tenth review conference is coming up in August, is in trouble, and not only because of the crescendo of complaints about the failure of the ...

It appears that the U.S.'s plutonium-238 shortage is coming an end. The radioisotope is crucial for fueling long-term deep space missions, but as of 2017, a shortage was on the horizon. But ...

WASHINGTON -- Sitting in a cold conference room, Siegfried Hecker was asked by his North Korean hosts if he would like to see their "product." "Yes," Dr. Hecker replied. "Do you mean plutonium?" ...

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