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

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

The termination of the PMDA means that the 34 tons of plutonium Russia had pledged to render unusable for weapons could now ...

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 ...

Sen. Ed Markey is sounding the alarm over the White House’s plans to dole out weapons-grade plutonium to private industry and whether those plans could end up benefiting a nuclear reactor company with ...

Such a move would risk putting weapons in the wrong hands and harming the nation’s defense, Democratic Senator Ed Markey explained in a letter to President Trump last week, reiterating arguments he ...

EADaily, October 8th, 2025. Russia in the current conditions considers it inappropriate to maintain obligations under the ...

After decades of hesitation, the United States is reconsidering nuclear fuel reprocessing—reviving the debate about ...

A Savannah River Site executive talked about the the impact of a change in oversight and the preparation for a new pit ...

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 ...

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