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Posted August 21, 2008:

• Radioactive Waste Recycling No Longer A Pain In The Ash
• FBI Unveils Science Of Anthrax Investigation

Posted July 10, 2008:

• Seismic Waves From Mine Collapses Can Now Be Distinguished From Other Seismic Activities

Posted June 16, 2008:

• First Semiconductor-Based PET Scanner Demonstrates Potential To Aid In Early Diagnosis Of Disease

Posted June 9, 2008:

• Sniffing Out A Broad-Spectrum Of Airborne Threats In Seconds

Posted May 8, 2008:

• Designer Isotopes Push The Frontier Of Science

Posted April 21, 2008:

• Questioning Nuclear Power's Ability To Forestall Global Warming

Posted April 17, 2008:

• Historic Soviet Nuclear Test Site Offers Insights For Today's Nuclear Monitoring

Posted April 14, 2008:

• Nuclear Power: Most Successful Fuel Performance Ever For US Advanced Gas Reactor Fuel

Posted April 8, 2008:

• Energy Research: Researchers Consider Future Challenges, Opportunities
• Safe 'Green' Decontamination Method Detoxifies Nerve Agents In Chemical Weapons And Pesticides

Posted March 13, 2008:

• New Tool To Monitor Nuclear Reactors Developed

Posted March 11, 2008:

• Europe To Build State Of The Art Laboratory

Posted March 10, 2008:

• Nuclear Fuel Performance Milestone Achieved
• Funding Cuts Jeopardize Cleanup Of Nuclear Waste Sites

Posted March 4, 2008:

• Nuclear Power Not Efficient Enough To Replace Fossil Fuels, Study Finds

Posted March 3, 2008:

• New Material Shows Great Promise For Nuclear Waste Clean-Up

Posted February 26, 2008:

• Killer Military Robots Pose Latest Threat To Humanity, Robotics Expert Warns

Posted February 16, 2008:

• US Not Set Up To Trace Nuclear Terrorist Device In Aftermath, Report Says

Posted February 4, 2008:

• Croatian Children Have Higher Weapons-Related Death Rate During And After Homeland War

Posted January 29, 2008:

• The Eyes Have It: Researchers Can Now Determine When A Human Was Born By Looking Into The Eyes Of The Dead

Posted January 28, 2008:

• Lessons From Evolution Applied To National Security And Other Threats

Posted January 24, 2008:

• New Model Of A Nuclear Pore Complex Is Based On Crystal Structure Of Its Key Component

Posted January 22, 2008:

• Cell Phone Sensors Detect Radiation To Thwart Nuclear Terrorism

Posted December 18, 2007:

• Explosives On A Chip: Unique Structure Enables New Generation Of Military Micro-Detonators

Posted December 11, 2007:

• Study Outlines Passenger Rail Systems Which Cost-Effectively Prevent Terrorist Attacks

Posted November 27, 2007:

• Is Nuclear Waste Seeping From Hanaford Waste Site To The Columbia River?

Posted November 23, 2007:

• Neutron Scatter Camera Detects Shielded Radiation To Find Smuggled Nuclear Material

Posted November 17, 2007:

• Chemists Create Novel Uranium Molecule

Posted November 9, 2007:

• Using Supercomputers To Make Safer Nuclear Reactors

Posted November 8, 2007:

• Physicists Peer Closely At Radioactive Decay Of A Rare Isotope At The Edge Of Nuclear Existence

Posted November 5, 2007:

• Faster, More Sensitive Method For Detecting Anthrax

Posted October 30, 2007:

• Children Would Need Different Medical Care In Wake Of Dirty Bomb

Posted October 29, 2007:

• Options For Dealing With Spent Nuclear Fuel, National Research Council Report

Posted October 24, 2007:

• Physicist Create Most Intense Operating Positron Beam Ever

Posted September 17, 2007:

• Accepted Notion Of Neutron's Electrical Properties Overturned By New Research
• Tracking Down Builders Of Homemade Bombs

Posted September 14, 2007:

• Portable Atomic Emission Detector Under Development

Posted August 21, 2007:

• Computational Actinide Chemistry: Are We There Yet?

Posted July 26, 2007:

• First Course Developed To 'Train The Trainers' About Radiation And Nuclear Exposure

Posted July 25, 2007:

• Three-Pronged Nuclear Attack

Posted July 24, 2007:

• Renewable Energy Wrecks Environment, According To Researcher

Posted July 18, 2007:

• Children And Young People Show Elevated Leukaemia Rates Near Nuclear Facilities

Posted July 3, 2007:

• UK Army Personnel Involved In Iraqi Invasion Not At Risk From Depleted Uranium, Study Finds

Posted June 28, 2007:

• Project Aims To Make Sodium-Cooled Nuclear Reactors Safe, Efficient

Posted June 21, 2007:

• Sandia Supports Development Of US Army's New Cannon System

Posted May 30, 2007:

• Increase In Cancer In Sweden Can Be Traced To Chernobyl

Posted April 24, 2007:

• Replacement Warhead Program Poses Challenges For Weapons Complex

Posted April 10, 2007:

• Carnegie Mellon Professors Question Advice For Nuclear Attacks

Posted April 7, 2007:

• Novel Multisensor Detection System Fights Terrorism

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