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US to recover world’s only supply of rare plutonium from Cold War nuclear wastes

The US Department of Energy has launched a new radiochemical separation process at the Savannah River National Laboratory to ...

U.S. Cold War Waste Reuse May Spur Nuclear Energy and Pharmaceuticals

The U.S. government launched a new operation extracting rare materials from Cold War era nuclear waste that is likely to ...

Breakthrough made with 'problematic plutonium'

A portion of "problematic plutonium" has safely been processed into a stable waste form in a UK first, a nuclear disposal group has said. The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said the can ...
Mission Local

U.S. Navy found elevated plutonium in Bayview. S.F. says it was kept in the dark.

Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard. Photo by Christopher Michel. Radioactive plutonium was found in the air above Bayview-Hunters Point at twice the federal government’s recommended levels, according to a ...

Oklo Stock Is Trending Wednesday: What's Going On?

Oklo Inc (NYSE:OKLO) shares are trending Wednesday morning after the company announced ongoing fast-spectrum reactor experiments at a U.S. Department of Energy site. Here's what investors need to know ...
TMCnet

Oklo and Los Alamos National Lab Conduct Fast Spectrum Plutonium Criticality Experiment

Oklo Inc. (NYSE: OKLO) (Oklo), an advanced nuclear technology company, today announced it has been conducting a multi-day plutonium fast reactor critical test suite with Los Alamos National Laboratory ...
Popular Mechanics

Scientists Find a New Way to Create the Plutonium That Powers Deep Space Missions

It appears that the U.S.'s plutonium-238 shortage is coming an end. The radioisotope is crucial for fueling long-term deep space missions, but as of 2017, a shortage was on the horizon. But ...
Ars Technica

Got plutonium? Bury it

Plutonium can be used to make nuclear bombs. But it can also be recycled and used as a fuel in nuclear reactors. According to the authors of a Nature editorial, the UK—which has the largest civilian ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

For the NPT to work, plutonium has to go

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), whose tenth review conference is coming up in August, is in trouble, and not only because of the crescendo of complaints about the failure of the ...
Los Angeles Times

Contamination from a nuclear cleanup forced a shutdown. Investigators want to know who is responsible

Reporting from Richland, Wash. — As crews demolished a shuttered nuclear weapons plant during 2017 in central Washington, specks of plutonium were swept up in high gusts and blown miles across a ...
Wired

NASA's Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Exploration

In 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft left Earth on a five-year mission to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Thirty-six years later, the car-size probe is still exploring, still sending its findings home. It ...