The US has offered energy companies access to nuclear waste that they can convert into fuel for advanced reactors in an attempt to break Russia’s stranglehold over uranium supply chains.
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US to open Cold War-era plutonium waste vault to power next-gen nuclear reactors
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has reportedly decided that weapon-grade plutonium from the Cold War-era stockpile could be turned into nuclear reactor fuel. The DOE will give American companies ...
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Putin terminates agreement with US on weapons-grade plutonium
Russia's leader Vladimir Putin has terminated the agreement under which Russia and the United States committed to dispose of ...
Moscow suspended accord in October 2016, citing ’hostile actions’ by US, including imposition of sanctions, growing influence ...
SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first ...
The lab where Oppenheimer developed the atomic bomb is the linchpin in the United States’ effort to modernize its nuclear ...
The Financial Times reports that the Department of Energy has invited companies to apply for up to 19 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium previously used in ...
PMDA is a Cold War-era deal committing both nations to the disposal of 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium each—enough ...
FILE - A caution sign is shown on a road on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on June 2, 2022, in Richland, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling ...
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