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Geotimes March 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Mineral Crumbles Under Nuclear Heat When it comes to storing nuclear waste, it turns out that zircon can't take the heat. A new, high-resolution look at the mineral -- previously thought to be a model material for storing nuclear waste -- reveals that it is quick to succumb to radiation damage.
Chemistry World November 20, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Nuclear waste research resurfaces The UK government's recent announcement of a significant expansion for nuclear power generation has rekindled the debate over the safe disposal of radioactive waste.
Chemistry World February 6, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Nuclear Storage: Ready, Willing, Able, and Undecided A report into the UK's long term nuclear waste storage plans has concluded there are no insurmountable technical barriers to storing nuclear waste deep underground. Between a third and two-thirds of the UK is geologically suitable for storing waste.
Chemistry World October 26, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Plutonium Hitchhikers Take the Fast Stream The radioactive element plutonium can travel through groundwater despite its low solubility: it hitches a ride on tiny colloid particles in the water.
Chemistry World May 17, 2012 David Bradley	Plutonium in a Spin Spectroscopists have finally pinned down the nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of plutonium-239. The finding might point the way to improved approaches to the long-term storage of nuclear waste.
Chemistry World July 31, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Bury Radioactive Waste, UK Government Told Radioactive waste should be stored deep underground at sites where local communities have had the opportunity to participate in, and even withdraw from, the planning process.
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Samuel K. Moore	Cold Fission If a nuclear version of a solar cell sounds like one of the old atomic battery concepts from the 1950s, it is, but with a potentially all-new twist.
Chemistry World March 17, 2011 Elinor Richards	Cleaning up nuclear storage ponds UK scientists have analysed the chemistry taking place in storage ponds at nuclear power sites, such as Sellafield, to come up with a way to remove radioactive waste as nuclear regulatory bodies are pressing on the nuclear industry to clean up the ponds.
National Defense January 2009 Grace V. Jean	Future of Nuclear Energy Hinges on Recycling Technology The industry's Achilles' heel is the radioactive waste that is produced in the process of generating power, experts say.
Chemistry World June 15, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Bonding behavior unlocked for uranium -- arsenic complex The discovery may help to improve the performance of chemical treatments used to recycle nuclear waste.
Chemistry World September 2006 Neil Hyatt	Comment: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? The recent recommendations from the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management should prompt a renewed research effort to tackle the problems of nuclear waste storage in the UK.
IEEE Spectrum July 2008 Sally Adee	U.S. Critics Hope to Halt Nuclear-Waste Imports Utah firm wants Italian isotopes
Chemistry World August 4, 2011 James Mitchell Crow	MOFs Ready to Gulp Down Radioactive Iodine Gas A porous material that can hold up to one and a quarter times its own weight of molecular iodine could help to mop up gaseous radioactive isotopes of the element.
Chemistry World February 15, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	UK Nuclear Policy Setback UK government plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations have suffered a setback after a public consultation on nuclear power was condemned by a High Court judge as 'inadequate' and 'misleading'.
Chemistry World November 2, 2007 Victoria Gill	UK Nuclear Waste Disposal Plans Too Soon and Too Scanty UK scientists have urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to amend its plans to ask the public to volunteer to host an underground nuclear waste store.
Chemistry World January 16, 2008 Michael Gross	Chemists Tame the Uranyl Ion UK chemists have devised a 'trap' in which to catch and modify the predominant form of uranium.
Chemistry World March 3, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Sulfide Sponge Could Clean up Nuclear Waste A new material that can extract radioactive strontium ions from solutions could help to clean up nuclear waste, according to researchers in the US.
Geotimes January 2005 Fred Schwab	Mount Everest, Nevada The United States entered the nuclear age more than a half-century ago, but has not yet resolved what to do with nuclear waste.
Popular Mechanics June 15, 2009 Andrew Moseman	10 Geekiest Elements Ever Created in a Lab The periodic table doesn't end at 92 -- not even close. Last week the official tally reached 112
National Defense December 2010 Grace V. Jean	Advancing Hidden Nuclear Material Detection On any given day, ships and trucks deliver cargo containers filled with tons of imported goods. Homeland security officials have long warned that terrorists may use them to smuggle nuclear materials into the United States.
Chemistry World October 17, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Heaviest Element Awaits Confirmation A team of Russian and American scientists has claimed the discovery of element 118, the newest and heaviest addition to the periodic table.
IndustryWeek July 22, 2009 Peter Alpern	MIT Nanocomposite Material Holds Promise for Energy MIT scientist creates a model to design radiation-resistant materials.
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Peter Fairley	Nuclear Wasteland With visions of nuclear electricity "too cheap to meter" long gone, the case for breeder reactors has shifted from creation of new fuels to management of spent fuels. The French are recycling nuclear waste. Should other countries follow suit?
Chemistry World January 10, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Green Light for UK Nuclear Power The UK government has formally announced its long-awaited decision to support a new generation of nuclear power stations. Scientists, while welcoming the government's decision, also warned that plenty of detailed decisions remained.
Chemistry World August 30, 2006 Tom Westgate	Lasers Shed Light on Magnetic Resonance A new way of measuring nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in liquid samples could have implications across spectroscopy and imaging, report researchers.
Geotimes May 2006 Naomi Lubick	Yucca Mountain e-Mails Reviewed The content of e-mails sent by U.S. Geological Survey employees that raised concern over work at Yucca Mountain -- site of the controversial future nuclear waste repository in Nevada -- should not affect the final scientific assessments of the site, according to an analysis.
Popular Mechanics December 29, 2008 Jeremy Jacquot	3 Projects We Hope to See From the DOE's Next Nuclear Research Facility Studying rare nuclear isotopes with unstable, short-lived nuclei has plenty of practical and commendable applications in medicine, national security, and cosmology.
Technology Research News June 1, 2005	Magnetic Resonance Goes Nano Researchers have built a nuclear magnetic resonance device that has the potential to overcome the quantum bit limit because it is small enough to fit on a computer chip.
Chemistry World August 9, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Ligand could trap actinides from spent nuclear fuel Is the problem of highly radioactive nuclear waste on the verge of being solved?
Wired April 2003 David Ewing Duncan	Do-or-Die at Yucca Mountain The regulatory tug-of-war over Nevada's nuclear waste dump has dragged on for decades. Meanwhile, temporary sites across the country are overflowing with radioactive fuel rods -- making them perfect targets for terror.
Popular Mechanics July 1, 2008 Michael Milstein	4 Real-Life WALL*E Robots Cleaning Up After Nuke Waste Much like the fictional cleaning robot currently packing movie theaters, robots are being used to clean humanity's worst messes.
Scientific American December 18, 2006 Graham P. Collins	Kim's Big Fizzle The Physics Behind A Nuclear Dud: The North Koreans produced some kind of a nuclear damp squib. What could have gone wrong depends on the nuclear fuel used.
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Popular Mechanics October 2006 Moore & Aurilio	The Great Nuclear Debate Here are some compelling arguments both for and against pursuing nuclear power as an answer to the country's energy problems.
Chemistry World March 8, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Double whammy blow to US nuclear science Nuclear science in the US has been dealt a double blow with the announcement of huge budget cuts at the Los Alamos National Laboratory coming hard on the heels of the mothballing of a multi-billion dollar research facility at the lab.
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 William Sweet	Could Fusion Clean Up Nuclear Waste? Physicists propose a marriage of fusion and fission reactors that could save both technologies
IEEE Spectrum December 2009 Sandra Upson	Finland's Nuclear Waste Solution Scandinavians are leading the world in the disposal of spent nuclear fuel
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Slakey & Tannenbaum	What About The Nukes? The U.S. nuclear stockpile is showing its age, but building new warheads isn't the solution.
TIME Asia February 28, 2011 Eben Harrell	Nuclear Batteries Hyperion Power Generation Inc. offers the nuclear battery -- so called because it is cheap, small and easily transportable and has many environmental benefits. It also has its detractors.
Chemistry World April 24, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	Radiochemicals firm first to recycle tritium GE Healthcare's radiochemicals group has developed a way to turn all the radioactive tritium waste it produces back into material pure enough to be used again.
Geotimes December 2004 Laura Stafford	Yucca on hold The Department of Energy likely will not meet its 2010 deadline to open up the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage site.
Popular Mechanics February 27, 2008 Joanna Borns	Florida Outage Aside, New Plants Pave Clean Road for Nuke Power The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) just offered its annual outlook for the future of nuclear power, and it's optimistic.
BusinessWeek July 8, 2010 Charlie Rose	Charlie Rose Talks to Anne Lauvergeon A conversation with Anne Lauvergeon; the French call the CEO of the largely state-owned nuclear power company Areva "Atomic Annie."
National Defense April 2009	Nuke Recycling Nuclear power is stymied in this country from unnatural fear.
Chemistry World December 15, 2010 Hayley Birch	New technique probes electron properties of individual atoms A new, low voltage electron microscopy technique allows scientists to discriminate not just between atoms of different elements but between atoms of the same element in different electronic states.
IEEE Spectrum September 2012 Dave Levitan	The Rich and Their Reactors Branson, Gates, and Bezos are pushing for nuclear reactors of one sort or another
Chemistry World March 17, 2011 Ned Stafford	Uncertainty for nuclear power Political fallout from the Japanese disaster has spread to Europe and will no doubt have a lasting impact on nuclear power policy and research funding.
Chemistry World October 7, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Los Alamos lab's safety lapses faulted for radioactive leak A radioactive material leak that affected 22 workers and closed the US's only permanent nuclear waste repository was likely the result of a failure to follow safety procedures.
CIO January 1, 2002 Scott Berinato	A Third Nuclear Age? The technology has improved so much, IT has the potential to make the benefits of new nuclear plants outweigh the disadvantages.
Chemistry World March 2, 2010 Anna Lewcock	New high tech nuclear lab for EU A new state-of-the-art facility in Germany will significantly boost Europe's ability to identify and characterise minute traces of nuclear material as part of ongoing safeguarding and non-proliferation activities.