News tagged with radioactive residue
Researcher uses bacteria to make radioactive metals inert
The Lost Orphan Mine below the Grand Canyon hasn't produced uranium since the 1960s, but radioactive residue still contaminates the area. Cleaning the region takes an expensive process that is only done in ...
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End of the magic: Shell model for beryllium isotopes invalidated
A research group led by Professor Dr. Wilfried Nortershäuser has, for the first time, managed to measure the size of the charge distribution in the atomic nucleus of the highly exotic beryllium-12 isotope. ...
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Malaysia grants license to Aussie rare earth plant
(AP) -- Malaysia on Wednesday granted a license for an Australian mining company to operate the first rare earths plant outside China in years, despite public protests over fears of radioactive contamination.
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Avoid the fallout: New ligands for nuclear waste treatment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Storage and containment of the "nuclear legacy", the highly radiotoxic residues from spent nuclear reactors is a pressing problem for the nuclear power industry that must be solved if nuclear ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Argonne team helps map Fukushima radiation release
(PhysOrg.com) -- As the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi reactors unfolded in Japan, several employees at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory were lacing up their boots.
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Foreign insects, diseases got into US
(AP) -- Dozens of foreign insects and plant diseases slipped undetected into the United States in the years after 9/11, when authorities were so focused on preventing another attack that they overlooked a ...
Oct 10, 2011 |
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Chemical research could help solve radioactive waste concerns
The controversial problem of storing some of the most radioactive elements of nuclear waste could be close to being solved thanks to experts from the University of Reading.
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Pigment patterns from the prehistoric past: X-ray technique reveals fossil pigmentation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Publishing their findings in Science, the researchers have been able to show a remarkable relationship between copper and pigment within exceptionally preserved feathers and other soft tissue ...
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Jun 30, 2011 |
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Worst over, but dangers persist at Japan plant
A month after a deadly quake-tsunami hit a Japanese nuclear plant, the risk of a huge radiation leak has fallen but the danger is far from over, experts say -- a risk brought sharply into focus by a powerful ...
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Malignant brain tumors: Benefit of PET and PET/CT in the detection of recurrences is not assessable
Malignant gliomas are fast-growing brain tumours with poor prospects of recovery depending on disease stage. Experts hope that the examination of patients by means of positron emission tomography (PET) is more helpful in ...
Jan 19, 2011 |
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First measurement of magnetic field in Earth's core
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of California, Berkeley, geophysicist has made the first-ever measurement of the strength of the magnetic field inside Earth's core, 1,800 miles underground.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 16, 2010 |
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