North Dakota lawmakers are studying radioactive waste storage options, though nuclear energy is at least a decade away. Current state law prohibits high-level radioactive waste storage, which would ...
The concrete cap of a tomb encasing radioactive fallout now has cracks, and what’s beneath can rise from the dead. The U.S. military, in 1958, conducted a nuclear test on Runit Island in the Marshall ...
Every atom is a coiled source of power. But some atoms pack more punch than others. The radioactive elements fueling nuclear reactors can be coaxed into generating so much power that in the mid-1950s ...
Russia put into operation its first near-surface final nuclear waste repository for solid low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste in 2016 in Novouralsk. A public event was told its first decade ...
A Hanford site employee collapsed and died midday Thursday at the Hanford nuclear site by Richland in Eastern Washington. Limited information was available Thursday afternoon, but the death of worker ...
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts found that Poland is making progress in safely managing its radioactive waste and spent fuel management activities, an essential part of ...
New designs mean new strategies for managing spent fuel. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You ...
Spent fuel reprocessing sounds great, but experts say we haven’t figured out the details. The prospect of making trash useful is always fascinating to me. Whether it’s used batteries, solar panels, or ...
Every year, millions of shipments of radioactive material are transported by land, air and sea. These materials are crucial for medicine, industry, research, agriculture and energy production. Because ...
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