US offers nuclear energy companies access to plutonium, FT reports

WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - The United States has offered energy companies access to nuclear waste that they can convert into fuel for advanced reactors, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

The newspaper, citing a U.S. Department of Energy document, reported that the U.S. had published an application that nuclear energy group can use to seek up to 19 megatons of the government's weapons-grade plutonium from cold war-era warheads.