News tagged with transuranic waste

Nuclear fusion-fission hybrid could contribute to carbon-free energy future

Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (37) | comments 21




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Towns near NM fire, nuclear lab wary of smoke

(AP) -- Residents downwind of a wildfire that is threatening the nation's premier nuclear-weapons laboratory are worried about the potential of a radioactive smoke plume if the flames reach thousands of barrels ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 11 | with audio podcast report

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.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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