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Laser-boron fusion now 'leading contender' for energy

15-Dec-2017 - A laser-driven technique for creating fusion that dispenses with the need for radioactive fuel elements and leaves no toxic radioactive waste is now within reach, say researchers. Dramatic advances in powerful, high-intensity lasers are making it viable for scientists to pursue what was once ...

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A fast reactor system to shorten the lifetime of long-lived fission products

15-Nov-2017 - A team of scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) working in collaboration with Tohoku University, Tokyo City University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency has proposed a novel approach to tackle the problem of radioactive waste disposal. The new method could dramatically reduce ...

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Creation of coherent states in molecules by incoherent electrons

24-Oct-2017 - In a breakthrough experiment using a novel negative ion momentum imaging technique, researchers from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai India and Open University, Milton Kyenes, UK have shown -- for the first time -- that incoherent electrons displaying their quantum mechanical ...

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New 'molecular trap' cleans more radioactive waste from nuclear fuel rods

09-Oct-2017 - A new method for capturing radioactive waste from nuclear power plants is cheaper and more effective than current methods, a potential boon for the energy industry, according to new research. "Our capture method by far outperforms all current technologies and may change the landscape of energy ...

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New-generation material removes iodine from water

09-Jun-2017 - Researchers at Dartmouth College have developed a new material that scrubs iodine from water for the first time. The breakthrough could hold the key to cleaning radioactive waste in nuclear reactors and after nuclear accidents like the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The new-generation microporous ...

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Treated carbon pulls radioactive elements from water

20-Jan-2017 - Researchers at Rice University and Kazan Federal University in Russia have found a way to extract radioactivity from water and said their discovery could help purify the hundreds of millions of gallons of contaminated water stored after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. They reported that ...

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Breakthrough offers greater understanding of safe radioactive waste disposal

22-Nov-2016 - A group of scientists from The University of Manchester, the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and the UK's synchrotron science facility, Diamond Light Source, has completed research into radioactively contaminated material to gain further understanding around the issue, crucial for the safe and ...

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Spherical tokamaks could provide path to limitless fusion energy

29-Aug-2016 - Creating "a star in a jar" - replicating on Earth the way the sun and stars create energy through fusion - requires a "jar" that can contain superhot plasma and is low-cost enough to be built around the world. Such a device would provide humankind with near limitless energy, ending dependence on ...

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Melting ice sheet could release frozen Cold War-era waste

08-Aug-2016 - In the 1960s, a military camp situated beneath the ice in Greenland was abandoned. Now, an international study in collaboration with the University of Zurich has revealed: Climate change could remobilize the abandoned hazardous waste believed to be buried forever beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. ...

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Radioactive matter migrates more quickly through fractured carbonate rock

22-Dec-2015 - Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have found that radioactive matter migrates more quickly in carbonate bedrock formations once it has leaked from a tank from near surface waste sites and geological repositories. Corroded stored waste containers can lead to radionuclide ...

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