Lancaster University engineers are developing computer systems for robots dealing with hazardous nuclear waste. The software will make the robots semi-autonomous – simplifying human co... Read more
New technology has been developed that uses nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery. A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol have grown a... Read more
Rutgers professor Ashutosh Goel invents way to contain radioactive iodine How do you handle nuclear waste that will be radioactive for millions of years, keeping it from harming people and t... Read more
First evidence for new molecular structure could open doors to chemical solutions for environmental problems Indiana University researchers have reported the first definitive evidence for a... Read more
During the existence of nuclear power industry a large number of channel uranium-graphite nuclear power reactors was built across the world. Only Russia operates 4 units of the Leningrad Nuc... Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill scientists figure out how to remove americium from nuclear waste pools, opening the door for expanding the use of one of the cleanest and efficient energy sources on the plan... Read more
An advanced nuclear reactor under development by Hitachi could help solve the nuclear waste problem, and Univ. of Michigan researchers were involved in verifying its safe performance through... Read more
The quest is for a new kind of nuclear reactor that would be fueled by today’s nuclear waste In a drab one-story building here, set between an indoor tennis club and a home appliance showroo... Read more
The researchers’ goal is to eliminate 99 percent of the most toxic transuranic waste from nuclear fission reactors. University of Texas at Austin physicists have been awarded a U.S. patent f... Read more
The framework of the NDTB-1 is key While the costs associated with storing nuclear waste and the possibility of it leaching into the environment remain legitimate concerns, they may no longe... Read more
Image via Wikipedia What if work performed in space could improve the treatment of household and nuclear waste on Earth? That’s what investigators are hoping to do with the results of... Read more