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

"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 (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 ...

In the deal being discussed, North Korea would finish disabling its nuclear reactor and provide a full accounting of its plutonium stockpile, the officials said. In an addendum to ...

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 ...

Traces of atmospheric nuclear tests conducted in the Pacific during the 1950s have been preserved in the ice of both Antarctica and the Arctic. A ...

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 ...

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