Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU), supported by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency ...

Plutonium , a radioactive element, is produced when uranium , another radioactive element, absorbs neutrons, and most of it is artificially produced, except for a small amount found in uranium ore.

Plutonium has accumulated at Sellafield for decades as a byproduct of spent nuclear fuel. The government had been exploring the possibility of reusing the stockpile as mixed oxide fuel (MOX), in which ...

The UK's 140-tonne stockpile of civil plutonium could be used as fuel for thermal reactors or combined with the country's 100,000-tonne supply of depleted, natural and low-enriched uranium to fuel new ...

The samples will be used to determine if the plutonium can be used in the production of mixed-oxide fuel. The shipment of samples starts its journey by road from Cherbourg (Image: Orano) The samples, ...

By Adrian Hedden El Rito Media CARLSBAD — Nuclear waste workers in South Carolina planned to use robots to prepare surplus plutonium for disposal at… Login to continue reading Login ...

While the first stage used uranium isotopes as nuclear fuel in pressurised heavy-water reactors to produce plutonium-239 (Pu-239) and energy, the second stage is more concerned with plutonium fission.

One such process, PUREX (plutonium uranium reduction extraction), uses nitric acid and a combination of organic solvents like kerosene to dissolve the uranium, plus aqueous solvents and reducing ...

Plutonium was used to form the cores of the nuclear bombs developed in the U.S. under the Manhattan Project, and later dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki ...

Even assuming each weapon uses 8 kilograms of plutonium, the amount of plutonium in the core of a new Moltex reactor would suffice to make around 300 nuclear weapons. Moltex argues that the plutonium ...

Lightbridge plutonium disposition fuel variant consumes 5.5 times more plutonium per fuel rod than mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel. Lightbridge’s proprietary next-generation nuclear fuel technology features ...