Lightbridge plutonium disposition fuel variant consumes 5.5 times more plutonium per fuel rod than mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel. Lightbridge’s proprietary next-generation nuclear fuel technology features ...

Back in 2011, technicians had arranged a number of plutonium rods on a table in order to take a photo—the intent being to celebrate their successful production.

About 6 percent of the fuel in reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan is made of a "mixed-oxide" fuel, which contains plutonium — which stays hazardous for tens of ...

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Study Validates Benefits of Lightbridge Designed Fuel Rods for Weapons-Grade Plutonium Disposition. Lightbridge Corporation . Tue, Feb 7, 2023, 8:00 AM 3 min read. In This Article: LTBR .

For a start, they seem unaware that not all plutonium isotopes are the same. The plutonium involved in the CANDU waste stream is mostly Pu-240, not Pu-239 (ie., reactor grade, not weapons grade). You ...

North Korea has halted the nuclear reactor at its main atomic complex, probably to extract plutonium that could be used for weapons by reprocessing spent fuel rods, a South Korean news report said ...

This illustrative image from April 11, 2024 shows the Khmelnytsky Nuclear Power Plant (KhNPP) Khmelnytsky, Ukraine. Kyiv has denied a report it could seek to develop nuclear weapons from plutonium ...

In a dramatic escalation, Israel has struck Iran’s Arak heavy water nuclear reactor, using 40 fighter jets in a precision assault. Though inactive, the facility is capable of producing weapons-grade ...

Lightbridge's metallic fuel (Image: Lightbridge) A study using a variant of Lightbridge Fuel in which uranium-zirconium alloy was substituted with an equivalent plutonium-zirconium composition found ...

--Lightbridge Corporation, an advanced nuclear fuel technology company, announced that a recently published peer-reviewed technical paper on the disposition of weapons-grade plutonium revealed ...

RESTON, Va., Feb. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lightbridge Corporation (Nasdaq: LTBR), an advanced nuclear fuel technology company, announced that a recently published peer-reviewed technical ...