Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory, which is part of the US Department of Energy, have made a significant ...

Innovative reactor developer Newcleo has acquired a site in Chusclan in the Gard department in southern France on which it ...

The TBP solution captured the plutonium and uranium while the nitric acid/water solution ... SRS researchers optimized known methods of irradiating an oxide of Np-237 with neutrons to produce Np-238, ...

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This isotope of hydrogen is called deuterium, and heavy water's more scientific name is deuterium oxide, abbreviated ... (U-235)—or converted into plutonium (Pu-239). Heavy water can play ...

Major utilities in Japan commission facilities in Britain and France to extract plutonium from spent nuclear fuel produced at atomic power plants in this country. It is processed into mixed-oxide ...

Years ago, pluthermal energy was viewed as a dream way for Japan to generate electricity with nuclear power plants using plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel. The beauty of the technology is ...