More information: Stephen K. Wilke et al, Plutonium oxide melt structure and covalency, Nature Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-01883-3 Provided by Argonne National Laboratory ...

Peter Santi, who is heading the training for Los Alamos, takes me across the classroom to pick up some pure plutonium oxide.It's sealed in a metal container about the size of a paint can, with a ...

Graham, who championed the mixed oxide fuel project for 20 years, said he’s sorry the fuel plant was never built because it would have rendered surplus weapons grade plutonium useless for weapons.

Three workers were Wednesday undergoing health checks after being exposed to a radioactive material while involved in the decommissioning of a nuclear reactor in Idaho ...

The U.K. has nearly 100 metric tons of plutonium--dubbed "the element from hell" by some--that it doesn't know what to do with. The island nation does not need the potent powder to construct more ...

ARIES is committed to two metric tons of plutonium oxide–the rest will be done on-site once Los Alamos can handle the task. In a statement to Popular Science, ...

A container of mixed oxide, or MOX, a blend of plutonium and reprocessed uranium, that Japan uses as nuclear fuel for the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, is loaded aboard the ...

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

Plutonium: Size Does Matter Date: October 16, 2002 Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory Summary: Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have found a better way to measure plutonium oxide ...

* Convert the plutonium waste into mixed oxide (Mox) fuel and then burn the fuel in conventional, pressurised-water reactors. This would involve the construction of a second Mox fuel plant at ...

B: Initially, plutonium oxide samples were matte gray but they changed to shiny black after intense heating. C: The inset shows a sample after heating under pure O 2 gas. Credit: Argonne National ...