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Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) in September. The 2.6-acre ...


UGA, UPR grant license for long-persistence glow materials, in any color

UGA, UPR grant license for long-persistence glow materials, in any color

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGARF) and the University of Puerto Rico have granted an international, non-exclusive license for a portfolio of glow-in-the-dark pigments that can be designed ...


Rebooting of Canadian medical isotope reactor delayed

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Canadian reactor that produced one-third of the world's supply of medical isotopes before it closed in May for repairs will remain offline at least until early 2010, nuclear authorities said Thursday.


Hydrogen protects nuclear fuel in final storage

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

By midsummer it will be announced where Sweden's spent nuclear fuel will be permanently stored. Ahead of the decision a debate is underway regarding how safe the method for final storage is, primarily in terms of the three ...


Scientists discover historic sample of bomb-grade plutonium

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Washington state are reporting the surprise discovery of the oldest known sample of reactor-produced bomb-grade plutonium, a historic relic from the infancy of America’s nuclear weapons program. ...


Detecting dirty bomb material with ESA gamma-ray technology

Detecting dirty bomb material with ESA gamma-ray technology

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Thanks to ESA and UK technology transfer support, a British company has developed a device based on the gamma-ray detection equipment used in ESA’s Integral astronomy satellite to detect and identify the radioactive ...