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 ...

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 ...

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

President Donald Trump's new Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, former CEO of the fracking company Liberty Energy, on Friday issued his first Secretarial Order which directs the Department of Energy t ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...