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Late Friday afternoon, the Department of Energy released an updated performance report on the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF). DOE's internal Office of Project Management Oversight and Assessment ...

Simulations have shown that a fuel rod designed by the company significantly outperforms traditional MOX fuel in consuming plutonium, and would be well-suited for consuming excess weapons-grade ...

Lightbridge plutonium disposition fuel variant consumes 5.5 times more plutonium per fuel rod than mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel. Lightbridge’s proprietary next-generation nuclear fuel technology features ...

About 6 percent of the fuel in reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan is made of a "mixed-oxide" fuel, which contains... Some outside experts are particularly concerned about ...