By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is moving forward with talks with companies to ...

Utilizing excess plutonium from nuclear weapons for peaceful purposes has long been an ambition in nuclear power. Now, AI induced demand is moving this dream forward.

In the next few decades, many physicists are hopeful that nuclear fusion could become a realistic source of practically ...

Debris is still raining down on Earth more than 100 million years after the giant cosmic explosion that created it. A study ...

(Craig Taylor/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A sprinkling of radioactive plutonium atoms hidden in the ocean floor may trace back ...

Weapons-grade plutonium can fuel nuclear reactors known as mixed oxide reactors, but none of these exist in the U.S.

Scientists uncovered traces of plutonium-244 in deep-sea crust, revealing a continuous cosmic rain from a kilonova explosion ...

The U.S. Department of Energy says it will pay South Carolina $600 million for the government’s failure to remove bomb-grade plutonium from a nuclear weapons complex that was stuck with the material ...

WASHINGTON — NASA is facing the prospect of trying to explore deep space without the aid of the long-lasting nuclear batteries it has relied upon for decades to send spacecraft to destinations where ...

Japan’s leading power companies decided to transfer ownership of tons of plutonium stored in Britain and France for reprocessing in a quest to reduce the stockpile as quickly as possible. The plan was ...

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 ...