In 1944, the U.S. began making plutonium for the atomic bomb: 80 years later, taxpayers are still paying for the cleanup

The Manhattan Project produced the plutonium that changed history, but left behind a radioactive legacy America is still ...
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Trump plan to give start-ups plutonium harvested from Cold War–era nuclear weapons is risky, experts say

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration's plan to offer plutonium from dismantled Cold War–era nuclear weapons to private energy companies is ...
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Trump’s plutonium money pit is an old idea — but not a good one

Using plutonium from nuclear bombs as fuel for nuclear reactors is a discredited, rejected, dangerous idea as old as the nuclear age. But it is back again, as a group of tech companies seek billions ...
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UK to dispose of radioactive plutonium stockpile

The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a secure facility at Sellafield in Cumbria. The UK has the world's largest stockpile of the ...
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Pitting Nuclear Modernization Against Powering AI: Trump’s Plans for the U.S. Plutonium Stockpile

President Trump’s proposal to repurpose the U.S. plutonium stockpile to fuel nuclear reactors resulted in a May 23, 2025, executive order directing the Department of Energy (DOE) to revisit disposal ...
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Shortage of radioactive ‘rare as diamonds’ material frustrates nuclear start-ups

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A shortage of plutonium could hold back a new generation of nuclear projects, with start-ups battling to secure ...
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Cold War Plutonium Could Power Future U.S. Reactors

The Trump Administration is proposing to make 20 metric tons of plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads available to U.S. power firms for use in advanced nuclear reactors. This plan follows an ...
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Plutonium levels at Montebello Islands remain elevated 70 years after nuclear weapons tests

Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU), supported by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) and in collaboration with Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology ...
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Plutonium compound unlocks rare topological quantum behavior with potential nuclear science applications

Plutonium is one of the most complex elements in the periodic table. First synthesized and isolated in 1940 by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, plutonium has been studied closely ...