The headline that Russia has formally withdrawn from a plutonium disposal agreement with the United States sounds very ...

Russian lawmakers voted to abandon a defunct treaty with the US on the disposal of military-grade plutonium as Moscow said ...

As dozens of tanks filled with radioactive waste are still waiting to be hauled offsite, construction for plutonium pit ...

Russia's lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved a move to withdraw from a landmark agreement with the United States ...

In 1977, the Carter administration deferred the commercial reprocessing and recycling of plutonium from the U.S. nuclear ...

The scramble to build new reactors to supply power to AI data centers may rely on plutonium from the nation’s nuclear ...

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), whose tenth review conference is coming up in August, is in trouble, and not only because of the crescendo of complaints about the failure of the ...

RICHLAND, Wash. - The Hanford site, a decommissioned nuclear production complex that manufactured plutonium for the Manhattan ...

Plutonium can be used to make nuclear bombs. But it can also be recycled and used as a fuel in nuclear reactors. According to the authors of a Nature editorial, the UK—which has the largest civilian ...

Among the Biden administration’s nuclear challenges are ongoing civilian plutonium programs in China and Japan. Also, South Korea’s nuclear-energy research and development establishment has been ...

WASHINGTON -- Sitting in a cold conference room, Siegfried Hecker was asked by his North Korean hosts if he would like to see their "product." "Yes," Dr. Hecker replied. "Do you mean plutonium?" ...

It appears that the U.S.'s plutonium-238 shortage is coming an end. The radioisotope is crucial for fueling long-term deep space missions, but as of 2017, a shortage was on the horizon. But ...