"Supply-side counter proliferation strategies (i.e., trying to deny countries the knowledge, material, and equipment needed ...

In a suite of executive orders announced on May 23, U.S. President Donald Trump directed the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) ...

Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia have confirmed plutonium levels in sediment up to 4,500 times ...

Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU), supported by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) and in collaboration with Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology ...

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 ...

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 ...

A shipment of samples of plutonium oxide is en route from the UK to a laboratory at Orano's Melox plant in southern France. The samples will be used to determine if the plutonium can be used in the ...

WIPP uses robotics in plutonium waste disposal July 26, 2024 News ...

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.

Plutonium isn’t really enriched the way that uranium is. Rather, plutonium is graded by the amount of 240 Pu it contains; the lower the concentration relative to 239 Pu, the higher the grade.

Plutonium is “ the stuff out of which atomic bombs are made.” Plutonium can also be used as a nuclear fuel. Reprocessing is any technology that extracts plutonium from used nuclear fuel. In Canada, ...