The DOE advances its nuclear fuel supply chain strategy by entering negotiations with 5 private firms to convert 20 metric ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 25—Trace amounts of plutonium from decades of weapons work at Los Alamos National Laboratory have contaminated the Rio Grande ...

The Department of Energy is in late talks about plans to provide weapons grade plutonium from dismantled Cold War-era nuclear warheads to possibly five nuclear energy startups, the department said in ...

WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. said on Tuesday it had chosen five companies, including Oklo (OKLO.N), opens new tab, to enter advanced talks over potentially using its Cold War-era plutonium ...

For decades, the U.S. has had a plutonium problem. Around 100 tons of the stuff was made during the Cold War to go into powerful atomic bombs. But as nuclear stockpiles were dismantled, the government ...

Plutonium (Pu) exhibits one of the most diverse and complex chemistries of any element in the periodic table. Since its discovery in 1940, scientists have synthesized and studied many different types ...

Normally, materials expand when heated. Higher temperatures cause atoms to vibrate, bounce around and take up a larger volume. However, for one specific phase of plutonium—called delta-plutonium—the ...

China is building two advanced nuclear reactors with Russian assistance that will produce plutonium for Beijing’s rapid buildup of nuclear weapons, according to a new Air Force think tank study. The ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have trapped a single plutonium atom inside a tiny molecular cage, using only six micrograms of the radioactive metal. The work turns an element ...