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Advanced nuclear energy is on the upswing thanks also to supportive state policy, expected load growth, technology companies’ interest in “clean firm” power and federal tax incentives that largely ...
The DOE's Hanford Site has safely treated and solidified 2,000 gallons of tank waste under its Test Bed Initiative.
The first breeder reactor, went online almost 75 years ago. But today, only two remain active across the globe. Our question ...
Discover the art of transforming your homemade liquid cooking stock into convenient stock cubes in this step-by-step guide.
If successful, it would become the world’s first nuclear reactor to destroy more long-lived waste than it produces, something no commercial reactor has ever achieved. Stellaria ...
Scientists have developed a supercooled sensor that delivers full radioactivity profiles without chemical tracers.
That evening came to mind recently as I read a New Yorker article by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert, which ...
Near signs that warn of radioactive risk at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a half-dozen workers from the nuclear power company X-energy are making what appear to be gray billiard balls. Inside, ...
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 ...
Oak Ridge researchers are converting nuclear waste into components for targeted alpha therapy, a cancer treatment that ...
The Hamblen County Commission is considering approving a new pre-treatment facility for liquid waste in Morristown. The company Grassland Environmental wants to build a ...
As countries across the world experience a resurgence in nuclear energy projects, the questions of where and how to dispose of nuclear waste remain as politically fraught as ever. The United States, ...