In our earlier post, “Recent Federal Developments For Advanced Nuclear Technologies,” we reported on the new administration’s ...

US President Donald Trump has signed four executive orders (EOs) intended to directly support nuclear power development, and ...

US Would Assess Nuclear Waste, Plutonium for Reactor Fuel Under Draft Order By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for ...

Israeli is upgrading its plutonium for its reactor at the nuclear research facility in Dimona, according to the annual report of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI ...

Repurposing surplus plutonium as reactor fuel could cut costs, ease the advanced nuclear fuel bottleneck, and offer a more permanent nonproliferation solution than dilute and dispose. America has ...

You have a nuclear reactor, it needs fuel, you put fuel in. QED. The general assumption is that filling a reactor with uranium and plutonium is like shoveling coal into a boiler furnace – a ...

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear ... good for making plutonium, so Oppenheimer et al went for a graphite reactor instead.

The industrial-scale production of plutonium required nuclear reactors, with uranium-235 producing neutrons that sustained the chain reaction in the reactor, while the uranium-238 in the fuel ...

France and other countries have reprocessed nuclear waste by breaking it down into uranium and plutonium and reusing it to make new reactor fuel. A U.S. supply chain would likely be far longer ...