Cold War Plutonium Could Power Future U.S. Reactors

Plutonium material from dismantled U.S. nuclear warheads from the Cold War could be offered to American power firms as a fuel to potentially use in advanced nuclear technologies, under a draft plan of the Trump Administration.    The U.S. does not use plutonium in nuclear power facilities. In the past, plutonium has been converted into fuel for commercial reactors in the United States only for short test runs.  Now the Trump Administration, which looks to give impetus to nuclear energy, considers making available 20 metric tons…