A portion of "problematic plutonium" has safely been processed into a stable waste form in a UK first, a nuclear disposal ...

Oklo Inc (NYSE:OKLO) shares are trending Wednesday morning after the company announced ongoing fast-spectrum reactor ...

The Navy was chided on Monday for failing to report elevated levels of plutonium for nearly a year. But those levels, it ...

The two lawmakers questioned the necessity of the nuclear weapons agency's plutonium pit strategy in a letter exclusively ...

Seaport Global lifted its rating of Oklo to Buy, pointing to the company's steady execution and spotlighting plutonium‑239 as its fuel choice.

Washington’s gamble on metallic fast reactors and the use of plutonium in them could turn bomb metal into centuries of power.

It’s widely known that a smoke detector is a good ionizing radiation source, as they contain a small amount of americium-241, a side product of nuclear reactors. But what about other sources? [Carl ...

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), whose tenth review conference is coming up in August, is in trouble, and not only because of the crescendo of complaints about the failure of the ...

It appears that the U.S.'s plutonium-238 shortage is coming an end. The radioisotope is crucial for fueling long-term deep space missions, but as of 2017, a shortage was on the horizon. But ...

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 ...

In 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft left Earth on a five-year mission to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Thirty-six years later, the car-size probe is still exploring, still sending its findings home. It ...