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Plutonium is a heavy, radioactive, man-made, metallic element used in the production of nuclear energy.

The August 3 incident at the Seibersdorf analytical lab, which occurred overnight and caused no injury, raised a stir in Austria, which hosts the IAEA but rejects nuclear energy itself as fundamentally dangerous.

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The most important section of a nuclear reactor is the reactor core. The reactor core is filled with fuel rods, rods of metal filled with a nuclear fuel such as Uranium-235 and Plutonium-239. Among these “fuel rods” are “control rods. …

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North Korea said Tuesday it has stopped disabling its nuclear reactor and will consider restoring the plutonium-producing facility in anger over Washington’s failure to remove it from the US list of terror sponsors. » original news.

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Moscow is not only pulling out of the diplomatic and sanctions front against Iran’s nuclear program; according to DEBKAfile’s Russian sources, Moscow has decided to finally finish building Iran’s nuclear reactor in the southern town of …

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An Israeli technician, working at the Demona nuclear reactor, felt that Israel’s secret production of plutonium there for nuclear weapons should be known by Israelis and the world, and as a matter of conscience he made the information …

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Prior to the 1967 war, Israel had already extracted enough plutonium to contemplate a nuclear test on its Arab neighbors. By 1985, Iran was modeling its nuclear program after Pakistan’s P-1 centrifuge design. …

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If we can jump through the hurdles of politics and bureaucracy red tape, the US could start to increase its nuclear energy foot print and lower its dependency on foreign oil and help lower greenhouse gases too. …

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The August 3 incident at the Seibersdorf analytical lab, which occurred overnight and caused no injury, raised a stir in Austria, which hosts the IAEA but rejects nuclear energy itself as fundamentally dangerous. …

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Of course, like anything else, there are problems with nuclear energy. Reactors, because of the neutron flux from fission, create radioactive waste. This material can be hazardous for thousands of years. Stable underground storage and …

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As Bush and ElBaradei noted in their proposals to restrict construction of new plutonium reprocessing facilities, making separated plutonium is unnecessary for the peaceful production of nuclear energy. This also applies to HEU use in …

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