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WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - (This June 15 story has been corrected to say that Piefer said once plutonium generates power it can no longer be used to make bombs, not that it is no longer dangerous ...

Highly Dangerous Plutonium Offers No Quick Fix to US Nuclear Fuel Crunch (Corrects paragraph 20 to say Piefer said once plutonium generates power it can no longer be used to make bombs, ⁠not ⁠it is no ...

Cold War-era nuclear technology is making a major comeback in the US. The Trump administration has selected several nuclear start-ups that could be granted the right to tap into stocks of ...

Weapons-grade plutonium can fuel nuclear reactors known as mixed oxide reactors, but none of these exist in the U.S. The Trump administration’s plan to offer plutonium from dismantled Cold War–era ...

For years, the U.S. Energy Department has been trying to decide what to do with literally tons of surplus plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons. Now, the Trump administration is pushing a plan ...

Apparently, the U.S. government’s solution for its stockpile of plutonium left over from Cold War-era nuclear weapons is to give private companies a shot at turning some of it into energy. The U.S.

Nuclear technology company Oklo has been selected by the US Department of Energy for advanced negotiations under the Surplus Plutonium Utilization Program, which aims to turn designated surplus ...

The Energy Department has selected five companies to possibly convert government stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium for a new generation of advanced nuclear reactors, a department spokesperson said ...

The Energy Department may allow up to five companies to use its surplus plutonium, which has historically been used in nuclear warheads, as fuel. The department has selected the firms for “advanced ...

The Department of Energy is in late talks about plans to provide weapons grade plutonium from dismantled Cold War-era nuclear warheads to possibly five nuclear energy startups, the department said in ...

For decades, the U.S. has had a plutonium problem. Around 100 tons of the stuff was made during the Cold War to go into powerful atomic bombs. But as nuclear stockpiles were dismantled, the government ...