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

As the Democratic Party has no platform statement for nuclear energy and has a mix of support within the party, a new platform statement will have to accomplish a few different objectives. …

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So can the plutonium. Among the fission products and minor actinides there are lots of useful isotopes used in medicine and industrial procedures. Forty percent of all medical procedures now involve some radioactive isotope and nuclear …

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Factory - plutonium isn’ta naturally occurring element. It’s produced by using uranium in a reactor. This is how civilian nuclear energy projects are used as trojan horses to acquire nuclear arms. But yes, it amazes me how Americans can …

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Parties to the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) have a recognized right of access to peaceful uses of nuclear energy and an obligation to cooperate on civilian nuclear technology. Separately, the Nuclear Suppliers Group has agreed on …

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But what about harnessing nuclear energy for electricity? In this case we want a controlled reaction. How to do that? If we absorb free neutrons, we effectively put limits on the chain reaction taking place. …

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Unlike a uranium reaction, a thorium fuel reaction doesn’t produce weapons-usable plutonium, which would allay concerns about developing countries pursuing nuclear weapons under the pretext of nuclear energy. …

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Who are the experimenters and who are the subjects in the 1944 letter captioned “Plutonium Tests on Humans?” Is the blandly labeled 1943 “Letter from Oppenheimer” to Fermi really discussing the concept of “radioactively poisoned foods”…

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Obama should have hit McCain on his advocacy of Nuclear energy; his talk about reprocessing was strange, shallow, and alarming. Sure, Nuclear Reprocessing exists, but it doesn’t succeed in eliminating nuclear waste. …

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Angered by the postponement, Pyongyang began work to restore the Yongbyon nuclear complex that can make weapons-grade plutonium.The current second phase of denuclearization, which obliges Pyongyang to disable its nuclear facilities and …

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The outside analysts, however, assert that the public would be in danger because all of the systems needed to control the nuclear reactor are outside the containment’s protective shell and could not be counted on in such an emergency. …

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