The most secure place to store Plutonium is inside an operating fission reactor

The most secure place to store Plutonium is inside an operating fission reactor

ByRod Adams

Plutonium-239 (Pu-239) is a nuclear fuel source that should play an important role in a sustainable, rapidly growing nuclear power enterprise. It is a natural byproduct that is created inside every fission reactor using uranium fuel. It is fissile with characteristics that are similar to U-235, the fissile material that provides most of today’s nuclear…

Atomic Show #308 – Alyssa Hayes, Nuclear Energy Advocate

Atomic Show #308 – Alyssa Hayes, Nuclear Energy Advocate

ByRod Adams

Alyssa Hayes is a leader in the pro-nuclear movement. She is a PhD candidate in nuclear engineering at the University of Tennessee and she has been interested in policy making and politics since interning with her local representative when she was 14 years old. She was involved in the successful efforts to save four nuclear…