Search results for uranium remediation

Environment Jun 16, 2015

Analysis shows elements not acting in nature as previously modeled

Knowing how a chemical in soil reacts and transforms over time in response to neighboring elements, weather and heat is essential in determining whether that chemical is hazardous. This is especially important when that chemical ...

Cell & Microbiology Jun 15, 2015

Scientists discover a bacterium that "breathes" uranium and renders it immobile

A strain of bacteria that "breathes" uranium may hold the key to cleaning up polluted groundwater at sites where uranium ore was processed to make nuclear weapons.

Materials Science May 8, 2015

Encouraging minerals to capture troubling radionuclides

Associated with contamination in certain spots around the world, pentavalent neptunium does not always behave the same as its stand-in when moving through the soil, according to scientists at University of Notre Dame and ...

Mar 27, 2015

Cosmic-ray muon technology to be used to image debris inside Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors

Toshiba Corporation and the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning (IRID) today announced the development of a muon-based technology for imaging and mapping nuclear fuel debris inside the reactor pressure ...

Space Exploration Feb 2, 2015

Exploring the universe with nuclear power

In the past four decades, NASA and other space agencies from around the world have accomplished some amazing feats. Together, they have sent manned missions to the Moon, explored Mars, mapped Venus and Mercury, conducted ...

General Physics Jan 23, 2015

Scientists search for new ways to deal with US uranium ore processing legacy

Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are trying to find out why uranium persists in groundwater at former uranium ore processing sites despite remediation of contaminated surface ...

Materials Science Dec 29, 2014

Radiochemistry Annex: It's getting hot in there

Scientist Daniel Kaplan has found it challenging to study radionuclides in contaminated wetlands due to the radioactive hazard and the biogeochemical complexity of the subsurface soils. Fortunately, he's able to safely pursue ...

Cell & Microbiology Sep 15, 2014

Boosting armor for nuclear-waste eating microbes

(Phys.org) —A microbe developed to clean up nuclear waste and patented by a Michigan State University researcher has just been improved.

Environment Jun 13, 2014

Bacteria show promise in restoring aquifers used in uranium mining

Wyoming's resurgent uranium industry could get a further boost from University of Wyoming scientists, whose research on post-mining environmental restoration is yielding extremely promising results.

Earth Sciences May 1, 2014

Researchers seek to understand the subsurface on a massive scale

The impacts of biogeochemical processes in the underworld beneath our feet are on massive scales. Thousands of microbial species dine on organic molecules, belching their leftovers back into the soil and upwards into the ...

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