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

This Agreement marks an important achievement for the United States and the UAE in establishing a foundation for the responsible development of peaceful nuclear energy under strong nonproliferation controls. The UAE’s commitment not to …

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The actuaries of the insurance companies also took note of the Hanford (WA) nuclear reactors on the Columbia River, where plutonium for nuclear bombs was being processed and high level radioactive waste was accumulating to the tune of 53 … Enter the moribund nuclear industry to tell us all, right up to President Obama, that nuclear energy emits no CO2. They would save us from dreaded global warming (overheating). Of course, they didn’t say a word about how much CO2 is …

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Nuclear energy will use radioactive material such as uranium or plutonium to heat the core of their generator which produces the electricity. Renewable energy is produce by use of power supplies that are virtually inexhaustible such as …

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Two paths lead from a nuclear energy program to weapons-grade material; one involves uranium and the other plutonium. For use as a nuclear fuel, naturally occurring uranium undergoes enrichment to increase the concentration of …

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For now, North Korea will remain somewhat trapped by its minimal plutonium supply. To make more, Pyongyang would have to restart its Yongbyon reactor. It will take approximately six months to prepare fuel for the reactor and to rebuild …

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To produce more plutonium, North Korea must restart its 25-megawatt nuclear reactor in Yongbyon, which they did in late April, though it might take 10-12 months to have it fully operational and several years to extract substantial …

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The only way to have a nuclear renaissance is using fast-breeder reactors to produce plutonium, which, with proper breeding, use all the energy in the uranium. But this is weapons-grade stuff, so there are some proliferations concerns. … In 2008, the first time in civil nuclear history, no new nuclear reactor was connected to the grid, while three units were shut down. The installed nuclear capacity declined by about 1600 MW, the size of the EPR in Finland that has been …

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A weblog devoted to the discussion of thorium as a future energy resource, and the machine to extract that energy–the liquid-fluoride nuclear reactor. … Besides making the production of a plutonium bomb far more difficult, weapons would have nothing to do with nuclear power. Thorium would be the nuclear power paradigm. Uranium would be the nuclear weapons paradigm. The technical challenge is to make thorium fuel in the form of pebbles near proliferation proof. …

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It cannot tell us how much plutonium the North still has, whether it intends to restart the Yongbyon reactor, or, for that matter, whether it is seriously thinking about invading South Korea. …. Now, the Philharmonic’s concert comes as Pyongyang shuts down its nuclear reactor in Yongbyon — which it promised to do in a diplomatic agreement with the U.S. and five other countries almost exactly one year ago. “For us, for the members of the orchestra, this is a momentous …

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“They stated that they would test an ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile], so they likely will test again,” Hecker said. “As for another nuclear test, they are limited by their small plutonium inventory, but one more test is …

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