Repurposing surplus plutonium as reactor fuel could cut costs, ease the advanced nuclear fuel bottleneck, and offer a more ...

US-based nuclear waste storage and disposal company Deep Isolation has completed Project PUCK, a US government-funded ...

Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being ...

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VERNON — A consultant hired by the U.S. Department of Energy has come up with preliminary plans for moving the spent nuclear fuel currently stored at the Vermont Yankee site in Vernon to an interim ...

more than 400 reactors in 31 countries have produced about 430,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel, and until now no one has developed a permanent solution for disposing of it. The International ...

It is mildly radioactive and can be converted into fuel for nuclear power plants. Uranium concentrate also plays a role in making nuclear weapons. By chemically enriching the substance to ...

The waiver enables INL to receive new shipments of spent nuclear fuel, including a high burnup nuclear fuel cask from a commercial nuclear power plant in Virginia, the North Anna Power Station ...

called an “amplifier”, which houses a nuclear fuel capsule and boosts the power of fusion reactions. The group has burned through tens of millions of pounds trying to bring its technology to ...

BOISE, Idaho — The State of Idaho and the U.S. Department of Energy have signed a waiver agreement that will allow new shipments of spent nuclear fuel to the Idaho National Laboratory for ...

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US Would Assess Nuclear Waste, Plutonium for Reactor Fuel Under Draft Order By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for ...