Channel 94
Plutonium is a heavy, radioactive, man-made, metallic element used in the production of nuclear energy.

The “research” reactor at which his nation has produced the plutonium for its vast nuclear weapons arsenal, Dimona, is beyond the end of its safe operational lifetime. They need a new reactor in the short to medium term. …

More: continued here

“It’s one of the unfortunate ironies of the situation that while they don’t have enough uranium for a civil nuclear energy program, they have plenty for a weapons program,” Albright says. “Even if Iran runs out of uranium, they have more …. It’s very important right now to start talking about a Middle East free of enrichment plants and reprocessing plants [that can separate plutonium], which could be used in nuclear weapons. And so, you want to achieve a region that …

More: continued here

Now, a group of landowners in rural Pittsylvania County is looking to make a fortune by digging up the ore, and, with talk of nuclear energy making a comeback following last summer’s sky-high gas prices, the state is thinking about …

More: continued here

I hold Frank partially responsible for the decade-long hiatus in reaching agreement with Korea on nuclear demilitarization, for decades of lack of progress in conversion of the Siberian plutonium reactors, for stalling growth of nuclear …

More: continued here

The firm has become the first US nuclear energy company to enter India after the nations’ civil energy agreement late last year. The 50% joint venture with Punj Lloyd, an [...] … The technology offers enhanced proliferation-resistance of spent fuel by stopping the reactor from producing nuclear weapons-usable plutonium. It also offers significantly reduced long-term radio-toxicity of spent fuel, improved economics and increased safety over traditional reactors. …

More: continued here

There are two basic ways that nuclear energy can be released from an atom:. Nuclear fission - You can split the nucleus of an atom into two smaller fragments with a neutron. This method usually involves isotopes of uranium (uranium-235, uranium-233) or plutonium-239. Nuclear fusion -You can bring two smaller atoms, usually hydrogen or hydrogen isotopes (deuterium, tritium), together to form a larger one (helium or helium isotopes); this is how the sun produces energy …

More: continued here

This process creates large amounts of energy but also radioactive ‘transuranic’ waste, which is heavier than uranium and includes plutonium, which can be used to create nuclear weapons. Nuclear fusion is the opposite process to fission …

More: continued here

The Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) is a once prolific rocket and nuclear reactor test facility located 30 miles (48 km) north of downtown Los Angeles, California. SSFL continues to operate today, serving as a research facility … Throughout the years, approximately ten low-power nuclear reactors operated at SSFL, in addition to several “critical facilities”: a sodium burn pit in which sodium-coated objects were burned in an open pit; a plutonium fuel fabrication …

More: continued here

Clinton said she regretted that the former Bush administration was unable to properly administer the North’s plutonium-producing nuclear reactor in Yongbyon which allowed the North to produce more plutonium and to conduct its first …

More: continued here

He shut down the nuclear reactor at the Hanford facility because the simply stated that the U.S. had no need for it being that the country was already “awash in plutonium.” He then went onto creating the Office of Environmental …

More: continued here