Japan has again adjusted its plans for reprocessing used fuel and producing mixed oxide (MOX) fuel – its pluthermal ...

Although Chernobyl is the most well known, there are a host of other radioactive places in the world in countries including ...

A "fast reactor" is a type of nuclear reactor that uses fast neutrons to sustain a chain reaction, while a "breeder reactor" is a specific design of fast reactor that produces more fissile fuel (like ...

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 growing number of energy companies are looking to nuclear recycling as a way to address waste management concerns while strengthening domestic fuel supply. Ed McGinnis, the former assistant ...

Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

As a sweetener, it will generate revenues for local projects through a tax on the material. RFS is a subsidiary of major nuclear plant ... at a proposed fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho in ...

Despite growing support for nuclear energy nationally and here in Wyoming, there are simply too many concerns to entertain the possibility of opening the state to the country's growing stockpile of ...

The Trump administration rescinded firings of hundreds of employees at the agency that oversees the nation's arsenal of ...

Today, the Council signed off on a revised regulation on the application of Euratom safeguards, the nuclear materials supervision system in the EU within the Euratom Community.

The Trump Administration fired then rescinded most of the firings of hundreds of federal employees tasked with working on the ...