Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...
The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of radioactive atoms. That's ...
Yellow barrels of radioactive waste lined up on shelves - Onurdongel/Getty Images Nuclear energy isn't as clean as we like to believe. The associated power plants produce small amounts of nuclear ...
Disposing of deadly nuclear waste is hard enough, but all the effort is for naught if you can't stop people from digging it up again. This is especially tricky since radioactive waste stays dangerous ...
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US dumping ground that stores hundreds of drums with nuclear waste set to be cleaned up
The United States is set to begin a cleanup mission of a nuclear waste dump ...
Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of water at the very plants that burned it. The technology to move most of that ...
Finland’s Onkalo repository is nearing approval as the world’s first permanent underground nuclear waste storage site, ...
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