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Nuclear industry wants Canada to lift ban on reprocessing plutonium, despite proliferation risks

By Gordon Edwards, Susan O’Donnell | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Canadian reactors that “recycle” plutonium would create more problems than they solve

By Jungmin Kang, M.V. Ramana | Nuclear Energy

A technician prepares salts for use in MSRE in 1964. By Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Accessed via Flickr. CC BY 2.0.

Molten salt reactors were trouble in the 1960s—and they remain trouble today

By M.V. Ramana | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste

A schematic of TerraPower's Molten Chloride Fast Reactor

Burning waste or playing with fire? Waste management considerations for non-traditional reactors

By Lindsay Krall, Allison Macfarlane | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste

Can North America’s advanced nuclear reactor companies help save the planet?

By Elisabeth Eaves | Climate Change, Fusion Energy, Nuclear Energy