The US has offered energy companies access to nuclear waste that they can convert into fuel for advanced reactors in an ...

The U.S. Department of Energy expects to begin announcing by December 31 which companies will take about 19.7 metric tons of ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has offered energy companies access to weapons-grade plutonium from Cold War-era warheads to convert into fuel for ...

The scramble to build new reactors to supply power to AI data centers may include plutonium from the nation’s nuclear ...

The United States understands South Korea's need to revise a bilateral nuclear energy pact to be allowed to reprocess spent ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has ramped up efforts to explore recycling spent nuclear fuel (SNF), or used nuclear fuel (UNF), from the nation’s fleet of light water reactors (LWRs), doling out $38 ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being considered by the administration of President Donald Trump on ...

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), whose tenth review conference is coming up in August, is in trouble, and not only because of the crescendo of complaints about the failure of the ...

In the early decades of the atomic age, using the enormous energy in plutonium atoms for the peaceful generation of electricity became a multibillion-dollar quest that shaped US energy research and ...