The third cycle of tests of MOX fuel in the MIR research reactor is to begin following the successful completion of the ...

The UK government has decided that the UK’s stockpile of some 140 tonnes of civil plutonium will be immobilised ...

MOX is a means to "burn" the plutonium remaining in spent reactor fuel to provide energy and make electricity. MOX provides about 2 percent of the new fuel used today, but this proportion is ...

THE Government has announced it will dispose of 140 tonnes of plutonium being stored at Sellafield – but some have questioned the decision.

Moltex, a UK-founded company developing its waste-to-fuel reactor design in Canada, has previously argued that nuclear waste ...

Nuclear fuel, particularly mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, plays a crucial role in the operation of nuclear reactors. MOX fuel is composed of a mixture of uranium and plutonium oxides, and its ...

The UK’s plutonium stocks will be immobilised at Sellafield before eventually being sent for geological disposal ...

The Labour minister agreed with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to dump140 tonnes of nuclear waste, currently stored at ...

A study focused on a boiling water reactor demonstrated that a new mixed oxide (MOX) fuel assembly design could effectively recycle americium, curium, and neptunium while maintaining energy ...

The federal government has agreed to conduct an extensive environmental study of a nuclear weapons production effort that includes a multibillion dollar pit factory at the Savannah River Site in South ...

The proposed pit production factory at SRS is to be developed at the site of the former mixed-oxide fuel plant, a project that was never finished. The so-called MOX plant was to turn excess ...