WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - (This June 15 story has been corrected to say that Piefer said once plutonium generates power it can no longer be used to make bombs, not that it is no longer dangerous ...

A Democratic senator is raising concerns that the Trump administration’s plans to let several private energy companies access weapons-grade plutonium could set a new and dangerous precedent globally.

For years, the U.S. Energy Department has been trying to decide what to do with literally tons of surplus plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons. Now, the Trump administration is pushing a plan ...

Weapons-grade plutonium can fuel nuclear reactors known as mixed oxide reactors, but none of these exist in the U.S. The Trump administration’s plan to offer plutonium from dismantled Cold War–era ...

Apparently, the U.S. government’s solution for its stockpile of plutonium left over from Cold War-era nuclear weapons is to give private companies a shot at turning some of it into energy. The U.S.

The Energy Department has selected five companies to possibly convert government stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium for a new generation of advanced nuclear reactors, a department spokesperson said ...

The Energy Department may allow up to five companies to use its surplus plutonium, which has historically been used in nuclear warheads, as fuel. The department has selected the firms for “advanced ...

The Department of Energy is in late talks about plans to provide weapons grade plutonium from dismantled Cold War-era nuclear warheads to possibly five nuclear energy startups, the department said in ...

For decades, the U.S. has had a plutonium problem. Around 100 tons of the stuff was made during the Cold War to go into powerful atomic bombs. But as nuclear stockpiles were dismantled, the government ...

The Energy Department may allow up to five companies to use its surplus plutonium — which it has historically been used in nuclear warheads — as fuel. The department has selected the firms for ...

The Graduate Student Council (GSC) passed a bill calling for the University to disclose the details of its response following an April 22 incident in which an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldier ...

The United States government has chosen five companies, including nuclear energy company Oklo, to enter advanced talks over potentially using its Cold War-era plutonium as a nuclear reactor fuel. The ...