The UK government has decided that the UK’s stockpile of some 140 tonnes of civil plutonium will be immobilised ...

The PULSAR research project, led by Belgian engineering firm Tractebel, has unveiled the conceptual design of a plutonium-238 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Jimmy Carter formed the Department of Energy, opposed a major Oak Ridge nuclear project and responded to Three Mile Island.

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

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 ...