THE Government has announced it will dispose of 140 tonnes of plutonium being stored at Sellafield – but some have questioned the decision.

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

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 ...

The United Kingdom plans to bury radioactive waste from a former nuclear power plant in a special nuclear burial site. The ...

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

Key point: The reactor at Yongbyon and a nearby radiochemical laboratory represent the only publicly known facilities in North Korea that produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. A resumption of ...

President Richard Nixon named the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project the highest priority national research effort in the ...

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 ...