{"id":23283,"date":"2026-05-27T01:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/doe-eyes-using-plutonium-in-nuclear-fuel\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:22:06","slug":"doe-eyes-using-plutonium-in-nuclear-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/doe-eyes-using-plutonium-in-nuclear-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"DOE eyes using plutonium in nuclear fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>beacon} Energy &amp; Environment Energy &amp; Environment &#8202; The Big Story  DOE eyes using plutonium for nuclear power  The Energy Department may allow up to five companies to use its surplus plutonium, which has historically been used in nuclear warheads, as fuel. &copy; Ted Shaffrey, Associated Press The department has selected the firms for &ldquo;advanced&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5896231-doe-eyes-using-plutonium-in-nuclear-fuel\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>beacon} Energy &amp; Environment Energy &amp; Environment &#8202; The Big Story DOE eyes using plutonium for nuclear power The Energy Department may allow up to five companies to use its surplus plutonium, which has historically been used in nuclear warheads, as fuel. &copy; Ted Shaffrey, Associated Press The department has selected the firms for &ldquo;advanced&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}