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 ...
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 ...
A French firm has submitted its application with local authorities, seeking approval to build ...
Instead of burying plutonium and pretending it has disappeared, we can put it to work. With advanced fast reactors, like those being developed by private American innovators, stored fuel will be ...
French molten salt reactor developer Stellaria has announced it is seeking the necessary authorisations to construct an ...
The second stage uses this plutonium in fast breeder reactors to multiply fuel and prepare the ground for the final phase — ...
NASA and the Department of Energy signed an agreement earlier this week committing to put a nuclear reactor on the moon in ...
A person reflects in the window of the U.S. Department of Energy, with the official portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump on the wall, following a partial government shutdown in Washington, D.C., ...