The current idea is to vitrify the plutonium – bake it into a ceramic glass, like material – and bury it 1000 metres below in a geological disposal facility (GDF). However, the UK currently possesses ...

"Russia continues to expand its army and shows no change in its deranged, anti-human state rhetoric," President Volodymyr ...

A compact method of detecting neutrinos provides new tests of physics theories and could lead to new reactor-monitoring methods.

These tech giants recognize that the next generation of microprocessors to be used for AI calculations at data centers will ...

Just one hour at the shore of Lake Karachay would be enough to kill. The radioactive lake, located in the southern Ural ...

These reactors can adapt to a variety of nuclear fuel cycles (such as Uranium-Plutonium and Thorium-Uranium cycles), which allow for the extension of fuel resources. They can also be designed as ...

Scientists at IFJ PAN discovered significant differences in plutonium isotope accumulation between hemispheres, with unique ...

The Rosatom Technical Academy (RTA) is developing and implementing training courses on two-component nuclear energy ...

For turning uranium into bomb-worthy plutonium, the British did not use water-cooled reactors like those at Hanford, Wash. They are too dangerous, potentially, to build near populated places ...

Moltex, a UK-founded company developing its waste-to-fuel reactor design in Canada, has previously argued that nuclear waste such as plutonium can be put to good use as fuel in molten salt ...

Ed Miliband has been warned he is throwing away “a valuable national resource” after ministers confirmed plans to bury Britain’s massive stockpile of plutonium ...