For years, the federal government has been working on turning old, unexploded warheads left over from the Cold War into a ...

A research team at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) recently documented the electronic behavior ...

A Democratic senator is raising concerns that the Trump administration’s plans to let several private energy companies access ...

The Trump administration is reportedly in talks with five companies to provide old plutonium to convert into fuel for future ...

It’s no more difficult or time-consuming to convert the 200 bombs’ worth of plutonium at Bushehr than to convert the ...

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 ...

Weapons-grade plutonium can fuel nuclear reactors known as mixed oxide reactors, but none of these exist in the U.S.

The US is planning to distribute plutonium left over from Cold War-era weapons to commercial nuclear developers as part of ...

The U.S. government is sitting on dozens of tons of weapons-grade plutonium. It's hoping startups can find a use for it.

The pre-revenue startup without a reactor beat nuclear giants for a DOE weapons-grade fuel program to convert commercial ...

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. said on Tuesday it had chosen five companies, including Oklo, to ...

The U.S. is exploring the use of Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads as alternative fuel for advanced nuclear reactors due to uranium supply shortages and reliance on foreign ...