Broad interviewed Richard L. Garwin in January for the last time after speaking with him many times over decades for articles on nuclear weapons, nonproliferation and other subjects. Enrico Fermi ...

In the process, the continent has amassed vast stockpiles of nuclear waste. This radioactive material can take millions of years to become safe, and no one really knows what to do with it.

WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being considered by the administration of President ...

A diagram of a molten salt research reactor ... concluded that some small modular reactor designs would create nuclear waste at a rate between two and 30 times that of conventional large nuclear ...

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers. For decades, the nation has been trying to send it ...

Gerald Frankel receives funding from ONR, DOE. Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers.

The long-standing U.S. scientific board had been created to bring more expertise to the challenge of radioactive waste. For the past three months, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board has been ...

A Castor container is positioned at Woerth railroad station. The nuclear waste inside consists of reprocessed fuel elements from German nuclear power plants, processed in England. According to the ...

Texas will determine ... More how nuclear waste is treated as nuclear energy demand spikes. Credit: Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States Created during an era of ...

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