Using surplus plutonium as reactor fuel offers the opportunity to turn that expense into value. Advanced reactors, such as fast reactors or molten salt designs, can use diluted plutonium as fuel ...

Because plutonium remains radioactive in the body for a long time, the risk of cancer persists for many years after exposure. The severity depends on the amount inhaled or ingested and how long ...

The proposed plutonium pit facility at Savannah River Site will reconstruct a massive 500-room partially completely abandoned building designed for the Mixed Oxide Plant. The spectacularly failed ...

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 ...

140 tonnes of plutonium is currently being stored at Sellafield, the nuclear site in Cumbria The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a ...

The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at Sellafield.

Unsurprisingly, plutonium has a strong metallic taste, rather than a candy pear flavor. How do we know this? One man, an American chemist by the name of Donald F. Mastick, really did taste it.

“This first fully qualified plutonium pit for the W87-1 nuclear warhead was “diamond stamped” after meeting all requirements, signifying its readiness for deployment to the U.S. nuclear ...

A research team led by researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has synthesized a new plutonium isotope, plutonium-227.

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 UK government has announced that the country's stockpile of some 140 tonnes of civil plutonium - currently stored at the Sellafield site in Cumbria - will be immobilised and eventually disposed of ...