The potential applications could lead to a net-zero world. As global awareness regarding the environmental and geopolitical impacts of fossil fuel consumption intensifies, nuclear energy…
The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone…
Study to refine computer models, inform policymakers for future spent nuclear fuel disposal. Scientists from Sandia, Los Alamos and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories have just…
Metals embedded in concrete can erode, rust, and weaken until the concrete splits and the structure it supports falls. Such corrosion is believed to be…
Study finds the materials — glass, ceramics and stainless steel — interact to accelerate corrosion. The materials the United States and other countries plan to…