Moltex, a UK-founded company developing its waste-to-fuel reactor design in Canada, has previously argued that nuclear waste ...

A historic nuclear reactor in Washington State was a critical part of the Manhattan Project, a site where plutonium was ...

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

Plutonium has occurred naturally, but except for trace quantities it is not now found in the earth's crust. It was first isolated in 1941. A typical large nuclear power reactor creates about ...

The Labour minister agreed with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to dump140 tonnes of nuclear waste, currently stored at ...

“We solved the structure of liquid plutonium oxide and found that some ... safety issues when using mixed oxide fuels in future nuclear reactors. Mark Williamson, the director of Argonne ...

The hunger for electricity in data centers knows no bounds. One of the US data center operators now wants to use mini-nuclear ...

A nuclear reactor is designed to split atoms. Some elements ... Second, they needed to build more and larger reactors in order to create the right kind of plutonium and uranium to use in atomic bombs.

plutonium and higher actinides as fuel for a new generation of so-called fast-spectrum nuclear reactors (higher actinides cannot practically be used as fuel in today's thermal spectrum reactors).

The BN-800 fast reactor is the only fast neutron reactor in the world generating electricity for a national grid on a sizable ...

President Richard Nixon named the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project the highest priority national research effort in the ...

One of the primary forms of waste from a typical nuclear light water reactor (LWR) is the spent fuel from the fission reaction. These consist of roughly 3% waste isotopes, 1% plutonium isotopes ...