Lasers, heat and a notoriously tricky element are at the center of a quiet revolution in how the United States plans to power ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Energy expects to begin announcing by December 31 which companies will take about 19.7 metric tons of surplus Cold War-era plutonium for eventual ...
Multi-day fast-spectrum reactor experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Criticality Experiments Research Center generate modern benchmark data. The data supports Oklo’s ...
Here’s something wild happening in Washington right now. The government is opening its driest vault—not for war, mind you, but for electricity. I’m referring, naturally, to Cold War-era weapons-grade ...
The second stage uses this plutonium in fast breeder reactors to multiply fuel and prepare the ground for the final phase — ...
What we know so far: The United States is opening part of its Cold War – era plutonium stockpile to help reduce reliance on Russian uranium and speed development of next-generation nuclear reactors.