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 ...
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US lab fires lasers at neptunium to map fuel for deep-space reactors
Lasers, heat and a notoriously tricky element are at the center of a quiet revolution in how the United States plans to power ...
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 ...
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 ...
Newcleo has raised another €75m in financing to advance lead-cooled fast reactor development, pre-licensing, and industrial ...
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The unused plutonium core that kept a third atomic strike within reach
On August 10, 1945, a handwritten note on a major wartime document placed an additional restriction on the atomic age, which was: “It is not to be released over Japan without express authority from ...
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