As the city of Oak Ridge races to once again be the U.S. capital of uranium enrichment, one company hopes to commercialize a ...

The U.S. government wants to select "disparate" locations where it could eventually make bomb-grade uranium again.

In order to produce fuel for certain types of nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons, uranium has to be "enriched" in the U-235 isotope, which is responsible for nuclear fission. During the enrichment ...

U-235 was 30% of the crust’s uranium. That number keeps falling, of course, and 2 billion years ago, the proportion would be about 3.6% — just right for nuclear fuel. In 1972 a French team ...