New Panel Seeks Nuclear Waste Solutions: Déjà Vu
With nuclear power back under serious consideration as a U.S. power source, a blue ribbon panel's decisions on what to do with waste carry great import.
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Nuclear Power? Ja, Maybe
Germany's upcoming election has put an unforgiving light on the nuclear phase-out promised in 2001.
Reprocessing Nuclear Fuel Makes Sense, But Is It Sensible?
Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel appeals to the modern urge to recycle, and some past concerns may be surmountable, but it remains an expensive and fraught process.
The Salt Mine Solution
In the Salado salt formation a half-mile below the New Mexico desert, WIPP has room to store all the radioactive waste an expanded nuclear power program could produce. Emphasis on the word could.
Even With Climate Change, Nuclear a Hard Sell
As political debate heats up about a potentially greater role for nuclear energy in a world struggling to abate global warming, British researchers have been looking at what influences public opinion on this issue.
Nuclear’s On the Road Again, But It’s Uphill
Climate change and fossil-fuel costs have re-energized the flickering nuclear movement in the United States, but many proponents are the fairest-weather of friends.