WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Energy expects to begin announcing by December 31 which companies will take about 19.7 metric tons of surplus Cold War-era plutonium for eventual ...

Oklo and LANL have conducted first plutonium fast reactor tests at NCERC, validating surplus fuel for advanced reactors like ...

Here’s something wild happening in Washington right now. The government is opening its driest vault—not for war, mind you, but for electricity. I’m referring, naturally, to Cold War-era weapons-grade ...

NASA and the Department of Energy signed an agreement earlier this week committing to put a nuclear reactor on the moon in ...

The United States is preparing to mine a rare nuclear resource from some of its most dangerous Cold War legacies, turning ...

An executive order signed in May of this year aims to make 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium available to U.S. power companies to be used as potential fuel for nuclear reactors, a Reuters ...

The Energy Department announced contracts for three reactor fuel companies in an effort to undercut Russia's dominance in the ...

VIENNA, Sept 2 (Reuters) - There is no sign North Korea reprocessed spent fuel from its main nuclear reactor into plutonium in the past year, but it seems to have continued to enrich uranium, the ...