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Using Cleanup Bacteria to Render Radioactive Metals Chemically Inert
Uranium-Eating BacteriaUniversity of Missouri-ColumbiaProfessor Judy Wall of the University of Missouri is working with bacteria that can render toxic radioactive metals inertScrubbing sites of...
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Robo-Sub Searches For Illegal Nuclear Waste in Mafia Shipwreck
Toxic Waste Under the SeaBBCAn underwater robot camera catches a glimpse of a toxic barrel on a suspected Mafia shipwreckTo scope out a suspected Mafia shipwreck that may hold nuclear material, Italian...
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Finnish Company Claims Its Copper Canisters Can Store Nuclear Waste for...
Spent Fuel Rods in StoragePosivaWith nowhere to store spent nuclear fuel rods, most end up in limbo, either cooling in large water baths or sealed up steel containers at secure facilities.While the...
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In our Future of the Environment issue, we mentioned one visionary's suggestions: self-sinking tungsten spheres that stash spent nuclear fuel deep beneath the Earth's surface. That idea is a long way...
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How to Clean Up Hungary's 16-Square-Mile Toxic Mess
Hungary's Toxic MessNASA Earth ObservatoryOn October 4, a breach in the wall of the waste containment reservoir at the Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina plant in western Hungary sent a caustic flood of toxic...
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With Shuttle Launches Over, Cleanup of Launch Zone Chemicals Will Take...
Atlantis Launch 1John MahoneyClearing the towerWith every ending comes a new beginning, as they say — so with the ending of the space shuttle program comes the beginning of a long environmental...
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How Wireless Charging Will Keep Toxic Waste Out of Landfills
Cutting the CordsAlison SeifferRechargeable batteries were supposed to keep trash out of landfills. Instead they replaced old garbage with new. Consumers throw away billions of battery chargers every...
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Turning Old Lead Batteries Into New Solar Energy
Used BatterieselizaIO on FlickrUsed car batteries can leech chemicals and create lead pollution when they're incorrectly trashed. A team at MIT believes that this lead can be cut out of the waste...
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The Truth Behind The EPA's Animas River Spill Is Messier Than You Think
When the river runs yellowREUTERS/EPA HandoutYellow mine waste from the Gold King Mine is seen in the river waters near San Juan County, Colorado, in an EPA photo captured on August 7, 2015.They say no...
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Using Cleanup Bacteria to Render Radioactive Metals Chemically Inert
Science Scrubbing sites of radiation is no easy task, not to mention costly. Aside from all the technical hurdles, the potential health hazards drive up the cost further, making it… Scrubbing sites of...
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Robo-Sub Searches For Illegal Nuclear Waste in Mafia Shipwreck
Technology Is the Mafia dumping radioactive waste in the ocean? One robot aims to find out To scope out a suspected Mafia shipwreck that may hold nuclear material, Italian authorities sent in the...
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Finnish Company Claims Its Copper Canisters Can Store Nuclear Waste for...
Science While the fate of America's Yucca Mountain appears to be sealed, Finnish company Posiva is moving forward with a cutting-edge nuclear waste storage facility that it claims… While the fate of...
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Seven Big-Thinking Proposals For Dealing With Nuclear Waste
Science Nuclear energy is looking like it will be a big part of a fossil-fuel-free future in the U.S. But the big question remains as big as ever: What's to be done with the waste it generates? In our...
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How to Clean Up Hungary's 16-Square-Mile Toxic Mess
Science So an industrial accident has blanketed your countryside in millions of cubic feet of caustic sludge. Now what? Scenes of caustic red sludge surging through pastoral Hungarian villages last...
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With Shuttle Launches Over, Cleanup of Launch Zone Chemicals Will Take...
Technology With every ending comes a new beginning, as they say — so with the ending of the space shuttle program comes the beginning of a long environmental remediation at NASA’s… With every ending...
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How Wireless Charging Will Keep Toxic Waste Out of Landfills
Gadgets Rechargeable batteries were supposed to keep trash out of landfills. Instead they replaced old garbage with new. Consumers throw away billions of battery chargers every year;… Rechargeable...
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Turning Old Lead Batteries Into New Solar Energy
Energy MIT team's work could curb toxic waste while contributing to clean power MIT team's work could curb toxic waste while contributing to clean power… MIT team's work could curb toxic waste while...
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The Truth Behind The EPA's Animas River Spill Is Messier Than You Think
Environment Despite best intentions, a toxic legacy roars back to life in Colorado On August 5, workers under EPA supervision were investigating the abandoned Gold King Mine in Colorado as part of a...
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