News tagged with nuclear waste
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EU bids to lock down radioactive waste forever
Europe sought Wednesday to lock away forever lethal radioactive waste, but a European Commission warning of hopelessly inadequate disposal facilities itself drew a stinging rebuke.
Nov 03, 2010 |
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Experts say federal nuclear waste panel overlooks public mistrust
A renewed federal effort to fix the nation's stalled nuclear waste program is focusing so much on technological issues that it fails to address the public mistrust hampering storage and disposal efforts.
Aug 12, 2010 |
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Scientists call for a global nuclear renaissance in new study
Scientists outline a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear energy that could see nuclear reactors with replaceable parts, portable mini-reactors, and ship-borne reactors supplying countries with clean ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 12, 2010 |
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Nanomaterials Researcher Working to Improve Nuclear Efficiency
(PhysOrg.com) -- With renewed attention being given to nuclear power, a UT Dallas researcher has snagged an $875,000 Department of Energy (DOE) grant to explore a means to boost power plant efficiency and ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Software will cut millions from nuclear clean-up bill
Virtual reality software that plans the safe decommissioning of nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities could save industry millions of pounds, according to its inventors.
Jul 01, 2010 |
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Breaking Good: Study examines durability of glass with ties to nuclear waste storage
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory determined how durable four-component glass is when aluminum atoms are replaced by boron atoms and vice versa. ...
Jun 29, 2010 |
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New material traps radioactive ions using 'Venus flytrap' method
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like a Venus flytrap, a newly discovered chemical material is a picky eater -- it won't snap its jaws shut for just anything. Instead of flies, however, its favorite food is radioactive nuclear ...
Feb 26, 2010 |
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GE and Hitachi want to use nuclear waste as a fuel
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the world's biggest providers of nuclear reactors, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (a joint venture of General Electric and Hitachi), wants to reprocess nuclear waste for use as a fuel in ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Hospital scanner could curb nuclear waste threat
Medical equipment used for diagnosis of patients with heart disease and cancer could be a key weapon in stopping nuclear waste seeping into the environment, according to new research.
Jan 29, 2010 |
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A Venus flytrap for nuclear waste
Not every object is food to a Venus flytrap. Like the carnivorous plant, a new material developed at Northwestern University permanently traps only its desired prey, the radioactive ion cesium, and not other harmless ions ...
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Valuable, rare, raw earth materials extracted from industrial waste stream
Fierce competition over raw materials for new green technologies could become a thing of the past, thanks to a discovery by scientists from the University of Leeds.
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Crashing the size barrier
Like surfers on monster waves, electrons can ride waves of plasma to very high energies in a very short distance. Scientists have proven that plasma acceleration works. Now they're developing it as a way to ...
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Wasteland and wilderness
(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard science historian and physicist Peter Galison is using part of his Radcliffe year to explore the intersections of forbidden wilderness and nuclear wasteland.
Oct 09, 2009 |
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Using waste to recover waste uranium
Using bacteria and inositol phosphate, a chemical analogue of a cheap waste material from plants, researchers at Birmingham University have recovered uranium from the polluted waters from uranium mines. The same technology ...
Sep 07, 2009 |
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Experts call for local and regional control of sites for radioactive waste
The withdrawal of Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a potential nuclear waste repository has reopened the debate over how and where to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste.
Jul 09, 2009 |
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