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 ...

Multi-day fast-spectrum reactor experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Criticality Experiments Research Center generate modern benchmark data. The data supports Oklo’s ...

The concrete stack stood 175 feet tall, much shorter than when the reactor was irradiating fuel to produce plutonium.

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 ...

A towering concrete exhaust stack at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state was ...

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 ...

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Unification Minister Chung Dong-young identified three locations—Yongbyon, Guseong, and Kangson—as areas where North Korea’s uranium enrichment facilities are operational on the 6th and estimated that ...

If I mention nuclear reactor accidents, you’d probably think of Three Mile Island, Fukushima, or maybe Chernobyl (or, now, Chornobyl). But there have been others that, for whatever reason, aren’t as ...