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plutonium reprocessing

Some fuels never learn. US Energy Department returns to costly and risky plutonium separation technologies

By Jungmin Kang, Masafumi Takubo, Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

An after-picture of the Urakami Tenshudo (Catholic Church) in Nagasaki, which was destroyed in 1945 by the fission of about one kilogram of plutonium. Credit: Public domain image accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

Plutonium programs in East Asia and Idaho will challenge the Biden administration

By Frank N. von Hippel | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

A satellite image of China's demonstration plutonium reprocessing plant.

China is speeding up its plutonium recycling programs

By Hui Zhang | Nuclear Risk

China is speeding up its plutonium recycling programs

By Hui Zhang | Nuclear Energy