Radiation detected near New Mexico nuke site
Scientists who monitor the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository say they have detected radiation in the air a half-mile from the site.
Scientists who monitor the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository say they have detected radiation in the air a half-mile from the site.
Environment
Feb 19, 2014
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Workers are expected to begin mining operations at the U.S. nuclear waste dump in New Mexico for the first time in three years following a radiation release that contaminated part of the underground repository, the Energy ...
Energy & Green Tech
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Advances in genetic sequencing and other technologies have led to an explosion of biological data, and decades of openness (both spontaneous and enforced) mean that scientists routinely deposit data in online repositories. ...
Other
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The $2 billion contract to manage one of the federal government's premier nuclear weapons laboratories will be up for grabs after 2017.
Other
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Although the importance of machine learning methods in genome research has grown steadily in recent years, researchers have often had to resort to using obsolete software. Scientists in clinical research often did not have ...
Biotechnology
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Researchers in Finland have found that acceptance of the site of a spent nuclear fuel repository can depend on gender and economic background. Writing in the International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 19, 2012
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Priceless treasure from the bottom of the sea is locked away at Texas A&M University, stacked on floor-to-ceiling racks and kept secure in 15,000 square feet of refrigerated space.
Earth Sciences
Jan 8, 2009
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The competition for a multibillion-dollar contract to manage the U.S. laboratory that created the atomic bomb is beginning as criticism intensifies over the troubled safety record of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Business
Jun 27, 2017
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The leading newspapers in two nuclear waste management forerunner countries, Finland and France, fulfill their 'watchdog' roles in highly distinct ways. The Finnish Helsingin Sanomat (HS) tends to reproduce government and ...
Social Sciences
Apr 16, 2021
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A government watchdog agency says the only underground nuclear waste repository in the United States doesn't have enough space for radioactive debris left over from decades of bomb-making and research, much less tons of surplus ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 7, 2017
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