Plutonium is not a fun word to speak, hear, or write. Used to depict an actinide metal we've known about for some time, it has become synonymous with human-caused destruction on a hard-to-comprehend ...

The government and the nuclear industry hope to use much of the plutonium at Oma’s advanced plant, which could use three times more plutonium than a conventional reactor. Meanwhile, the plutonium ...

Plutonium is “the stuff out of which atomic bombs are made.” Plutonium can also be used as a nuclear fuel. Reprocessing is any technology that extracts plutonium from used nuclear fuel. In Canada, the ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to cancel a plan to make surplus plutonium from Cold War-era atomic bombs available as a fuel for ...

The Trump Administration is proposing to make 20 metric tons of plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads available to U.S. power firms for use in advanced nuclear reactors. This plan follows an ...

WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being considered by the administration of President Donald ...

The UK's 140-tonne stockpile of civil plutonium could be used as fuel for thermal reactors or combined with the country's 100,000-tonne supply of depleted, natural and low-enriched uranium to fuel new ...

SRS Watch is a non-profit public-interest group located in Columbia, South Carolina that monitors policies and programs of the U.S. Department of Energy, with a focus on the Savannah River Site ...

In September, the city council of Westminster, Colorado voted not to fund a pedestrian bridge and underpass at the Rocky Flats site due to concerns about residual soil contamination from plutonium and ...

This article is part of “The New Nuclear Age,” a special report on a $1.5-trillion effort to remake the American nuclear arsenal. In early nuclear bombs, like the ones the U.S. dropped on Japan in ...