Items tagged with nuclear

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Radioactive Waste No More a Pain in the Ash Friday, August 22nd, 2008 - 16:00:35 - Anuradha Menon A new recycling plant will soon recover uranium from the ashes of radioactive garbage to be recycled back into nuclear fuel using an efficient... read more

North Korea Blows Its Stack Sunday, June 29th, 2008 - 18:08:58 - Ehud Rattner North Korea demolished the cooling tower of its only nuclear reactor last Friday in a gesture of its willingness to end its plutonium weapons... read more

Are There Nuclear Reactors at Earth's Core? Friday, May 16th, 2008 - 20:53:10 - Ehud Rattner Nuclear reactors could be burning deep beneath the ground, two scientists have claimed. They say that uranium could become sufficiently concentrated... read more

Leading Physicist John Wheeler Dies at 96 Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 - 12:35:30 - Iddo Genuth John A. Wheeler, the fertile-minded physicist who popularized mind-stretching ideas about black holes, worm holes and quantum foam and also... read more

Nuclear Conflict Will Enlarge Ozone Hole Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 - 11:06:31 - Ehud Rattner A limited nuclear weapons exchange between Pakistan and India using their current arsenals could create a near-global ozone hole, triggering human... read more

Nuclear Bomb Schematics Released Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 - 16:40:13 - Ehud Rattner Official schematics for a “workable” atomic bomb appeared on Wikileaks last week, purportedly depicting the “Fat Man” weapon detonated over the... read more

New Material for Nuclear Waste Clean-Up Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 - 14:12:00 - Ehud Rattner A team of Northwestern University chemists is the first to focus on metal sulfide materials as a possible source for nuclear waste remediation... read more

Mars Science Lab in Trouble Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 - 22:30:11 - Iddo Genuth NASA's flagship mission to land a nuclear-powered, next-generation rover on Mars is facing development problems and ballooning costs that could... read more

US Struggles to Stop Nuclear Trafficking Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 - 14:26:26 - Ehud Rattner A new report by the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science warns of a shrinking pool of expertise and... read more

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