If the fear is that Iran can or will build a nuclear weapon, destroying or neutralizing its supply of enriched uranium is ...

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea (search) escalated its nuclear standoff with the United States by declaring Friday that it has solved "all the technological matters" involved in using plutonium ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. North Korea says it has resumed reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods to extract plutonium, further raising the ...

Unification Minister Chung Dong-young identified three locations—Yongbyon, Guseong, and Kangson—as areas where North Korea’s uranium enrichment facilities are operational on the 6th and estimated that ...

Even dirt can be dirty, and researchers have found a way to clean soil contaminated with two radioactive elements produced by past nuclear weapons development and nuclear energy research. The method ...

Alexey Yemelyanov, a graduate student at TPU, has developed a dynamic mathematical model of uranium and plutonium extraction for waste-free nuclear power. It allows you to choose the optimal operating ...

Rosatom State Corporation has implemented a major project to decommission the first experimental plutonium extraction plant, U–5, located on the territory of the High-Tech Research Institute of ...