Yet despite improvements in the design of nuclear-fission reactors ... lived nuclear waste (the minor actinides plus, if desired, plutonium) into short-term non-fissile waste that can be disposed ...
Plutonium used in nuclear weapons, 'weapons-grade' plutonium ... These difficulties include 'pre-initiation' (a high spontaneous fission rate leading to the nuclear chain reaction starting ...
It comes after ministers backed the findings of a review by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) that called for around 140 tonnes of plutonium ... of nuclear fission – into so-called ...
Plutonium has accumulated at Sellafield for decades as a byproduct of spent nuclear fuel. The government had been exploring the possibility of reusing the stockpile as mixed oxide fuel (MOX), in which ...
Ed Miliband has been warned he is throwing away “a valuable national resource” after ministers confirmed plans to bury Britain’s massive stockpile of plutonium ...
Deep Fission, a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) developer, has partnered with Endeavour Energy, a US sustainable infrastructure developer, to develop and deploy nuclear fission to power AI data ...