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Reducing Nuclear Waste with Advanced Reactor Designs

Advanced technologies offer ways of reducing the quantity of nuclear waste. “New types of nuclear power plants can switch to a closed fuel cycle. It means that nuclear waste wouldn’t be buried as such; instead, it would be chemically dissolved and the recyclable component re-processed into new fuel.

21 Dec 2009

Solution to the Problem of Cleaning Cooling Water from Nuclear Reactors

Together with his colleague Sevilimendu Narasimhan from the Bhabha Atomic Research Center in Kalpakkam, India, the chemist PD Dr. Börje Sellergren from the Institute of Environmental Research at Technische Universität Dortmund has developed a new method to reduce the amount of this radioactive waste in nuclear reactor cooling water considerably. His approach: small beads consisting of a special polymer which "fishes" the radioactivity out of the water.

29 Nov 2009

Department of Energy Asks U.S. Universities For Applications From Those Interested In Nuclear Energy Research and Development

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a new Request for Pre-Applications for universities interested in conducting cutting-edge nuclear energy research and development

12 Oct 2009

World's Most Advanced Nuclear Reactor Launched by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced it has achieved a key milestone in deploying the world’s most advanced nuclear reactor design

10 Sep 2009

Clean Up and Demolition of Nuclear Site Featured in Film

UK Government Minister Lord Hunt today visited the site of Scotland’s most successful nuclear clean-up project and watched the first screening of a film about its clean-out and demolition

8 Sep 2009

Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste With Bacteria

Using bacteria and inositol phosphate, a chemical analogue of a cheap waste material from plants, researchers at Birmingham University have recovered uranium from the polluted waters from uranium mines

7 Sep 2009

US Postal Service Hybrid Electric Vehicles Use Generator From Aura

Aura Systems announced today that Azure Dynamics Corporation incorporated the AuraGen generator into its Balance Hybrid Electric vehicle, which is the newest addition to the United States Postal Service fleet

7 Sep 2009

Renewed Interest in Nuclear Power is Behind Development of New Supermaterials

An upsurge of interest in nuclear power as an energy source in the era of global climate change is fostering development of a new generation of supermaterials to ensure the safety and reliable performance of tomorrow’s nuclear power stations

28 Aug 2009

Brookhaven Statement on Radiation From Marshall Islands Atomic Weapons Testing

In 1956, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) turned to Brookhaven National Laboratory to continue a program of medical evaluation and care of Marshall Islanders accidentally exposed to radioactive fallout following a U.S. nuclear weapons test at Bikini atoll on March 1, 1954. Brookhaven Lab was not involved in the weapons test

25 Aug 2009

Nuclear Power Plant in Finland to Get ABB Upgrade

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order from the Finnish power producer TVO for power solutions to enhance reliability and ensure trouble-free and safe operations at the Olkiluoto 1 and 2 nuclear power plant units

17 Aug 2009