In 2021, nine US nonproliferation experts sent an open letter to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In their letter, the experts expressed their concern that the Canadian government was actually ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to make available about 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to U.S. power companies as a potential ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to cancel a plan to make surplus plutonium from Cold War-era atomic bombs available as a fuel for ...

Last week U.S. District Judge Mary Lewis Geiger, South Carolina, faulted the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency for ignoring the National Environmental Protection Act and ...

The Trump Administration has initiated a controversial program to provide weapons-grade plutonium to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and an investor in the nuclear startup Oklo. This initiative aims to ...

Members of the Democratic Party are expressing doubt for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) alleged plan to give at least 20 metric tons of weapons-usable plutonium to the private sector for commercial ...

The site will process aging plutonium pits to create new ones, generating hazardous and radioactive waste in the process. Some members of the public and a former citizens' advisory board chair ...