Sixty years ago, the former Soviet Union started conducting nuclear tests in a remote area of Eastern Kazakhstan. Much of the plutonium residue never disappeared. When the Soviets pulled out it was ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday terminating an already defunct plutonium disposal agreement with the United States that aimed to prevent both sides from building more nuclear ...
President Trump’s proposal to repurpose the U.S. plutonium stockpile to fuel nuclear reactors resulted in a May 23, 2025, executive order directing the Department of Energy (DOE) to revisit disposal ...
In 1965, a covert US-CIA and Indian mission to install a plutonium-powered spy device on Nanda Devi failed due to severe ...
WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - The United States has offered energy companies access to nuclear waste that they can convert into fuel for advanced reactors, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.