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

Under this scenario, utilities will be urged to increase the number of reactors using pluthermal energy. Burning MOX fuel would be one way to reduce the stockpile of plutonium possessed by Japan ...

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

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

This reactor produced the bulk of the plutonium for North Korea's weapons, and was at the centre of several diplomatic confrontations and breakthroughs. Today, it is capable of operation using ...

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

China has continued the rapid development of its nuclear weapon arsenal and it has accumulated approximately 600 operational warheads, as per a recent report released by the Pentagon – which ...

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

These reactors can adapt to a variety of nuclear fuel cycles (such as Uranium-Plutonium and Thorium-Uranium cycles), which allow for the extension of fuel resources. They can also be designed as ...

The aftermath of Sellafield's 1957 reactor fire and the UK's ongoing efforts to entomb its toxic legacy deep beneath the ...

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