Beginning in the late 1950s, the U.S. met this challenge by developing nuclear batteries known as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and producing plutonium-238 ... be found in nature or ...

Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft executives should instead take a deep breath and begin reevaluating their options. Do they ...

In our eagerness to clamp down on Iran’s uranium-enrichment and potential plutonium-production activities relating to its small heavy-water reactor, both those in favor and those opposed to the ...

The federal government is moving forward with the “cocooning” of eight plutonium production reactors at Hanford that will place them in a state of long-term storage to allow radiation inside ...

The PFBR will play a crucial role in this program by breeding plutonium and U-233 for use in Advanced Heavy Water Reactors (AHWRs ... tokamak for energy production) program to design and build ...

The proposed plutonium pit facility at Savannah River Site will reconstruct a massive 500-room partially completely abandoned ...

EU-Conversion, a European Union research project is seeking to develop low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuels for research reactors ...

Heavy water can play a role in breeding weapons-grade plutonium ... water nuclear power plants for electricity, make the most heavy water. Other countries with heavy-water production facilities ...

The Rosatom Technical Academy (RTA) is developing and implementing training courses on two-component nuclear energy ...

During the operation of the reactor, plutonium formed in the fuel will contribute an increasing proportion of the overall energy production of the reactor - towards the end of an operating cycle ...