Oklo and LANL have conducted first plutonium fast reactor tests at NCERC, validating surplus fuel for advanced reactors like ...

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 ...

Meta Platforms has found a nuclear power supplier: the company Terrapower, founded by Bill Gates. It plans to supply 2 to 8 ...

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 ...

The United States is preparing to mine a rare nuclear resource from some of its most dangerous Cold War legacies, turning ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration plans to make available about 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to U.S. power companies as a potential fuel for ...

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 ...

(Removes reference in paragraph 5 to fuel plants needing Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval, as the plants would be authorized by the Department of Energy) By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) ...