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Nuclear waste becomes clean energy as Jefferson Lab's particle accelerators reduce storage time by 99.7% while generating electricity for the grid.

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A massive Dallas-Fort Worth subdivision and a school have risen atop layers of oil and gas drilling waste. One worker who ...

The element radium can be found in extremely tiny amounts in the Earth’s crust and oceans, and in its pure form it is a soft silvery metal. To an untrained eye, a small piece of radium may look like a ...

The last CASTOR cask containing used nuclear fuel has been removed from the Brokdorf ...

Introduction to Radioactivity Lesson Overview In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive ...

The nuclei of certain atoms are stable and under ordinary circumstances, stable nuclei do not undergo change. The nuclei of other atoms are unstable. These nuclei undergo change spontaneously, that is ...

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