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 ...

A portion of "problematic plutonium" has safely been processed into a stable waste form in a UK first, a nuclear disposal group has said. The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said the can ...

A recently passed resolution by San Diego County seeks partnerships with national labs and companies to reprocess the waste ...

A plan to dilute and dispose of excess plutonium dating back to the Cold War was frozen by an executive order President Donald Trump issued late last month. Instead, the order directs Energy Secretary ...

I was taking out the trash and recycling the other day, and as I was dumping things into the cans-and-bottles bin and the paper-and-cardboard bin, I started thinking about radioactive waste. Because ...

On July 17, the United Kingdom ended 58 years of plutonium separation for nuclear fuel by closing its Magnox nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield. This leaves the UK with the world’s largest ...

Associated PressWASHINGTON? Plutonium reprocessing activity at a key North Korean site has apparently ceased, U.S. officials said Thursday.It is unclear why the North Koreans stopped work at their ...

As we've been reporting over the past week, North Korea has dismantled U.N. monitoring equipment at its main nuclear complex at Yongbyon. It has also started moving fresh fuel into a reactor there.

A French company in charge of converting radioactive U.S. military material into a commercial fuel says the shipment of plutonium from the United States arrived at a French factory as planned Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being considered by the administration of President Donald Trump on ...

Seventy years after the United Kingdom first began extracting plutonium from spent uranium fuel to make nuclear weapons, the industry is finally calling a halt to reprocessing, leaving the country ...

North Korea may be trying to extract plutonium for nuclear weapons at its main atomic complex, according to an analysis of recent satellite images from the rogue state. The US website 38 North — which ...