TOKYO (AP) – Last year’s tsunami disaster in Japan clouded the nation’s nuclear future, idled its reactors and rendered its huge stockpile of plutonium useless for now. So, the industry’s plan to ...

WASHINGTON • The Trump administration plans to make available about 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to U.S. power companies as a potential fuel for reactors, ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Energy expects to begin announcing by December 31 which companies will take about 19.7 metric tons of surplus Cold War-era plutonium for eventual ...

The Savannah River Site, a 310-square-mile Department of Energy site located in the Sandhills region of South Carolina, is shown in this aerial photo made available July 27, 2012. (National Nuclear ...

North Korea appears to be making new nuclear bomb fuel, satellite imagery shows, even as its leader, Kim Jong Un, has expressed willingness to negotiate atomic disarmament with President Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to cancel a plan to make surplus plutonium from Cold War-era atomic bombs available as a fuel for nuclear ...