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Marshall Islands Research Could Lead to Resettlement After Nuclear Tests
February 11, 2010 Through Laboratory soil cleanup methods, residents of Bikini, Enjebi and Rongelap Islands -- where nuclear tests were conducted on the atolls and in the ocean surrounding them in the 1950s -- could ... > full story -
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Hospital Scanner Could Curb Nuclear Waste Threat
January 29, 2010 Medical equipment used for diagnosis of patients with heart disease and cancer could be a key weapon in stopping nuclear waste seeping into the environment, according to new ... > full story -
Venus Flytrap for Nuclear Waste: New Material Finds 'Needle in a Haystack,' Shows Promise for Clean-Up
January 26, 2010 Like a Venus flytrap, a new material permanently traps only its desired prey, the radioactive ion cesium, and not harmless sodium ions. The material can remove 100 percent of the cesium -- found in ... > full story -
Scientists Develop New CT Scanner to Image Nuclear Weapon Components
January 26, 2010 The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced that it recently completed the installation and successful startup of a new surveillance diagnostic tool ... > full story -
New-Generation Reactors Help Reduce Nuclear Waste
December 21, 2009 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 ... > full story -
'Fighting' IED Attacks With SCARE Technology
December 10, 2009 Researchers have developed and successfully tested new computer software and computational techniques to analyze patterns of improvised explosive device attacks in Iraq, Afghanistan or other ... > full story -
Nuclear Waste Reduction: Polymers Designed to Mop Up Radioactive Isotopes
November 27, 2009 Nuclear power could solve our energy problems but it has rather nasty by-products: radioactive waste. Not only the disposal of the old core rods but also reactor operation results in a large amount ... > full story -
Nuclear Weapons: Predicting the Unthinkable
November 22, 2009 If a nuclear weapon were detonated in a metropolitan area, how large would the affected area be? Where should first responders first ... > full story -
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SNM Applauds House Action To Build Medical Isotopes Reactor In The US
November 6, 2009 SNM applauds the US House of Representatives for its passage of H.R. 3276 -- the American Medical Isotopes Production Act of ... > full story -
Dangers Of Incapacitating Chemical Weapons And Widespread Misuse Of Riot Control Agents
October 29, 2009 Seven years ago, Russian Security Forces employed a secret incapacitating chemical weapon in their attempt to free 800 hostages held in a Moscow theatre by armed Chechen fighters. Over 120 hostages ... > full story
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