Close-up observations of Pluto would be impossible without the use of generators that rely on cancer-causing plutonium to produce electricity and heat for New Horizons' instrumentation. Pluto is much ...
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Can nuclear energy save us from global warming? Perhaps, but the tradeoffs involved are sobering: thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste generated each year and a greatly ...
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US aims to extract rare plutonium from Cold War nuclear waste
The United States is preparing to mine a rare nuclear resource from some of its most dangerous Cold War legacies, turning ...
The House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Strategic Forces held a hearing today to discuss building mixed oxide fuel facilities to convert surplus plutonium from weapons into mixed-oxide ...
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