On July 17, 1984, the United Kingdom staged one of the most dramatic engineering demonstrations ever televised. As part of Operation Smash Hit, engineers sent a driverless locomotive hurtling toward a ...

A Canadian lab removed 89% of long-lived nuclear material from spent fuel in 24 hours using a breakthrough chemical process.

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Fionna Samuels about the use of vitrification to safely store nuclear waste at a former weapons site in ...

Zheng Wan is a professor at and director of the Department of International Shipping in the College of Transportation and Communications at Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China. Nuclear ...

Several states have now agreed to take a large part of America’s nuclear waste at the same time a government office says the ...

Chinese startup VeloAlpha uses AI to simulate reactor designs, potentially cutting years of trial and error from nuclear fusion.

Trump had been trying to muscle his name onto the Kennedy Center, and then, amid a series of staff departures and ...

Hanford's vitrification plant just proved it can do the one thing nobody was sure about — actually work — after turning 100,000 gallons of Cold War nuclear waste into solid glass, and that milestone ...

The Canadian lab validation of Moltex's WATSS process is the most significant development in nuclear waste management in decades, and almost nobody in the U.S. is paying attention to it yet. A ...

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