For decades, a third rail of US nuclear power policy has been reprocessing spent fuel and extracting the plutonium. The country has alternately supported and suspended reprocessing over the past ...

Outdone only by nuclear fusion, the process of nuclear fission releases enormous amounts of energy. The ‘spicy rocks’ that are at the core of both natural and artificial fission reactors are generally ...

The siren song of spent nuclear fuel reprocessing beckons again, selling a sweet melody that, actually, threatens to stymie hopes of a nuclear energy revival in the United States. A tantalizing ...

Signs that the US could be about to overturn a 30-year ban on nuclear fuel reprocessing have been greeted with alarm by environmentalists worried about the dangers of spreading plutonium around the ...

The agreement leaves out two safeguards Washington has traditionally insisted on. First, a ban on uranium enrichment and ...

US advanced nuclear recycling technologies firm Curio has signed a memorandum of understanding with NuScale Power and Framatome to evaluate how recovered materials from used nuclear fuel can support ...

TOKYO -- Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) may be forced to postpone completion of its reprocessing facility for spent nuclear fuel yet again as regulators push it to add another process to dispose of ...

In December, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to explore sending the nuclear waste from the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to a Department of Energy facility — currently ...

SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on Thursday the U.S. and South Korea have agreed to discuss nuclear fuel reprocessing following a summit between U.S. President ...

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