Uranium from the Mallinckrodt plant was used in the first sustained nuclear reaction in Chicago, a significant breakthrough. An internal Mallinckrodt memo from 1949 shows the company was storing ...

An internal Mallinckrodt memo from 1949 shows the company was storing highly radioactive residue called K-65 in deteriorating steel drums at the St. Louis airport near Coldwater Creek.

Nuclear waste storage Standing in the way of those ambitions is nuclear energy’s Achilles heel – radioactive waste storage. When used up, the uranium rods that produce nuclear energy need to be ...

Spent nuclear fuel remains highly radioactive for thousands of years and can be very dangerous if not properly handled and maintained.[3] The issue of how and where to store this waste has been ...

Current research indicates four primary pathways for natural hydrogen generation: (1) Natural radiolytic decomposition of deep groundwater induced by radioactive elements within highly radioactive ...

The bacterium has been genetically engineered to consume and detoxify mercury and toluene in highly radioactive environments, making it potentially valuable for bioremediation of nuclear waste sites.

Japan is one of the earth’s most earthquake-prone areas, and because of Fukushima’s daily accumulation of contaminated cooling water, some 1.3 million tonnes of this highly radioactive liquid ...