Size Matters For Speeding Up Nuclear Waste Cleanup
Innovative separation technology may have broad industrial uses
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US Startup Promises Radioactive Battery That Never Needs Charging
A US-based startup called Nano Diamond Batteries (NDB) is claiming that it has developed a new kind of battery that would turn radioactive waste materials into safe, usable batteries suitable for use in everything from smartphones to spaceships. What’s more, it claims its irradiated batteries won’t ever need charging. From … [continued]
US Nuclear Waste Dump Threatened By Rising Sea Levels, Putting Entire Pacific At Risk
America’s nuclear testing program is about to unleash a deadly cocktail of radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean, thanks to rising sea levels caused by global warming.
Melting Greenland Ice Sheet To Release Cold War–Era Toxic Wastes Buried By US Military
The portion of the Greenland ice sheet covering the Cold War–era US military base known as Camp Century — also known as “the city under the ice” — could start to melt by the end of the century, according to new research from CIRES (a partnership between NOAA and the … [continued]
Researchers Crack 50-Year-Old Nuclear Waste Problem
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have cracked a 50-year-old nuclear waste problem that will make nuclear storage much safer moving forward. Published in the journal Science, the results of the researchers’ study shows how they adapted a technology originally intended for solar energy in order to … [continued]
San Diego Says NO To Spent Nuclear Fuel
Originally Published on the ECOreport San Diego County’s Board of Supervisors made history today. Californians have never voted on whether to demand the Department of Energy remove nuclear waste. As San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is decommissioned, a toxic waste dump is being built 600 feet from the Pacific Ocean, and … [continued]
