Shorter-Lived Waste: Fusion waste is considerably less hazardous and has a shorter half-life than the waste generated by fission reactors. There are still some key hurdles that need to be overcome ...

Fusion power is the holy grail of energy technologies: it makes more energy than nuclear fission, produces less waste, doesn’t ... or equipment that is toxic for hundreds of years is manageable ...

Nuclear fusion reactors , if and when they become practical , will ... And the established process to obtain Li-6 was banned in the US in 1963 because of the harmful mercury waste it generates. Now ...

In a groundbreaking leap toward cleaner, more affordable energy, scientists in France held a fusion reaction steady for over 22 minutes — shattering the previous world record. If that number sounds ...

Work has begun at Italy's Garigliano nuclear power plant to dismantle an old radioactive waste system, used during the ...

Uranium produced in St. Louis was used for the secretive Manhattan Project. Leftover waste was dumped around the city.

Fusion technologies are rapidly moving up the performance curve as world records tumble. The road to commercialisation is ...

The Army Corps of Engineers has been cleaning up radioactive contamination near St. Louis since the 1990s, but their efforts ...

Gerald Frankel receives funding from ONR, DOE. Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers.

To clarify, this is not a thermonuclear bomb (which uses nuclear fusion). Traditional hydrogen bombs work through nuclear fusion, a process where atomic nuclei combine under intense pressure to ...

They’re coming in as we speak — nuclear waste from out of state is ... communities have been very vocal about stopping hazardous waste from being dumped at a nearby landfill.

To curb Nigeria’s growing toxic waste crisis, the federal government has launched a new initiative to strengthen the country’s capacity for sound chemicals and waste management. The special ...