John on August 27th, 2010

Collaborative working by teams at Sellafield has delivered a solution to a problematic waste disposal issue, saving the company over £250,000 in the process.

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on February 1st, 2010

Not every object is food to a Venus flytrap. Like the carnivorous plant, a new material developed at Northwestern University permanently traps only its desired prey, the radioactive ion cesium, and not other harmless ions like sodium.

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John on November 10th, 2009

Hansard 10 Nov 09 Today, to guide the decision making of the new Infrastructure Planning Commission, we are setting out for consultation six draft policy statements on energy, the most important being those on the trinity of fuels of our low-carbon future: renewables, nuclear power and clean fossil fuels.

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John on November 9th, 2009

Press Release 09 November 2009 Our Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) has produced two summary reports on the disposability of higher activity solid radioactive wastes and spent fuel that would be generated by reactors in a new nuclear build programme.

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on November 3rd, 2009

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has analysed the state-of-the-art science, technology and procedures needed across the EU for implementation of geological disposal for high-level nuclear waste.

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