Replying to critique of his warnings on Bushehr's spent fuel, Henry Sokolski argues that Tehran-based dismissals fail to ...

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Researchers have detected the isotope plutonium-244 in the Pacific seabed. It was created by a cosmic explosion that occurred 100 million years ago. More than 100 million years ago, a very rare and ...

Deep-sea crusts preserved plutonium traces from a rare ancient cosmic event, likely a neutron-star merger, dating back over 100 million years. (Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers from ...

An international team of researchers from Dresden as well as from Sydney and Canberra, Australia, has detected rare radioactive isotopes in a deep-sea manganese crust, providing new insights into the ...

WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - (This June 15 story has been corrected to say that Piefer said once plutonium generates power it can no longer be used to make bombs, not that it is no longer dangerous ...

Highly Dangerous Plutonium Offers No Quick Fix to US Nuclear Fuel Crunch (Corrects paragraph 20 to say Piefer said once plutonium generates power it can no longer be used to make bombs, ⁠not ⁠it is no ...

A Democratic senator is raising concerns that the Trump administration’s plans to let several private energy companies access weapons-grade plutonium could set a new and dangerous precedent globally.

Weapons-grade plutonium can fuel nuclear reactors known as mixed oxide reactors, but none of these exist in the U.S. The Trump administration’s plan to offer plutonium from dismantled Cold War–era ...

For years, the U.S. Energy Department has been trying to decide what to do with literally tons of surplus plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons. Now, the Trump administration is pushing a plan ...

Apparently, the U.S. government’s solution for its stockpile of plutonium left over from Cold War-era nuclear weapons is to give private companies a shot at turning some of it into energy. The U.S.