Tag Archives: plutonium

Nuclear weapons monitors demand environmental review of new bomb production plans via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2022/04/18 by nfield

By Marilyn Bechtel Four public interest groups monitoring the nation’s nuclear weapons development sites are demanding the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency conduct a thorough environmental review of their plans to produce large quantities of a … Continue reading →

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UK Stops Nuclear Reprocessing, but Sellafield Plant to Remain Open for Decades via The Energy Mix

Posted on 2022/01/25 by nfield

Primary Author: Paul Brown @pbrown4348 Seventy years after the United Kingdom first began extracting plutonium from spent uranium fuel to make nuclear weapons, the industry is finally calling a halt to reprocessing, leaving the country with 120 tons of the metal, … Continue reading →

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Why joint US-South Korean research on plutonium separation raises nuclear proliferation danger via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2022/01/16 by nfield

By Frank N. von Hippel, Jungmin Kang | January 13, 2022 South Korea, like the United States, has long relied on nuclear power as a major source of electric power. As a result, it has amassed large stores of spent nuclear fuel and, … Continue reading →

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The history of nuclear power’s imagined future: Plutonium’s journey from asset to waste via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2021/09/27 by nfield

By William Walker Two histories of nuclear power can be recounted. The first is the history of the active present.  It tells, amongst other things, of the technology’s evolution and role in electricity production, its military connections, installed types, capacities … Continue reading →

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Bill Gates’ Fast Nuclear Reactor: Will It Bomb? via The National Interest

Posted on 2021/07/22 by nfield

The principal reason for preferring fast reactors, historically the only reason, is to gain the ability to breed plutonium. Thus, the reactor would make and reuse massive quantities of material that could also be used as nuclear explosives in warheads. by Victor Gilinsky Henry Sokolski … Continue reading →

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Japan’s plutonium stockpile climbs to 46.1 tons in 2020, first rise in 3 years via The Mainichi

Posted on 2021/07/11 by nfield

[…] Plutonium is extracted from spent nuclear fuel generated at nuclear plants, for the purpose of recycling. However, the international community has expressed concerns over Japan’s large plutonium stockpile, saying it could be converted into nuclear weapons. According to the … Continue reading →

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New plutonium research helps distinguish nuclear power pollution from global fall out via EurikAlert!

Posted on 2021/03/27 by nfield

Lancaster University Researchers looking at miniscule levels of plutonium pollution in our soils have made a breakthrough which could help inform future ‘clean up’ operations on land around nuclear power plants, saving time and money. Publishing in the journal Nature Communications, … Continue reading →

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Who’s minding the nuclear file? Oversight needed for New Brunswick’s risky plutonium plan via NB Media Co-op

Posted on 2021/03/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

$50.5 million in federal taxpayer dollars for controversial technology to “recycle” used nuclear fuel by Susan O’Donnell and Gordon Edwards Pierre Elliot Trudeau banned the extraction of plutonium from used nuclear fuel in Canada. Yesterday Justin Trudeau lifted the ban under … Continue reading →

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For the NPT to work, plutonium has to go　via the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2021/03/15 by nfield

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | March 15, 2021 The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), whose tenth review conference is coming up in August, is in trouble, and not only because of the crescendo of complaints about the failure of the nuclear-armed states to implement nuclear … Continue reading →

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The long-term problem of “peaceful” plutonium via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2021/03/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Robert Alvarez […] Seaborg and the AEC projected the growth of nuclear-powered electricity would be so great that global supplies of uranium would be exhausted, paving the way for the recovery of plutonium from spent power reactor fuel for the … Continue reading →

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