A New Vision for Nuclear Waste
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Storing nuclear waste underground at Yucca Mountain for 100,000 years is a terrible idea. A better approach may be to buy some time--until new containment technologies mature.
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By ALICIA CHANG LOS ANGELES - To the untrained eye, the sleek, airy building constructed atop a decommissioned nuclear reactor at the University of California, Los Angeles could pass for high-tech office space.
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A new form of carbon being pioneered by Walter de Heer could lead to speedy, compact computer processors.
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Move over Tupperware. A new wave of parties is about waste-free school lunches and energy-efficient laundry.
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Using a novel new approach, scientists at the Imperial College in London are on the path to optical storage that dwarfs the capacities of current DVD&#39;s and even upcoming, blue laser-based discs.
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Research offers new hope - from timely forecasts to building codes and maps of potential destruction.
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There's fuel is waste water. Who knew.
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To explore deeper into our solar system, maximum efficiencies may one day be extracted from sound waves. Los Alamos scientists have engine plans drawn up for making a big bang to push a pistonless drive forward.
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An invitation to a conference on the politics of waste leads to thoughts on the relationship of dirt and technology -- thoughts that lead inexorably to the trash-can icon on personal computers. Commentary by Momus.
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WASHINGTON - NRG Energy Inc. will submit the first application for a new nuclear reactor in the United States in nearly 30 years, company chief executive David Crane said yesterday.
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Forget safeguarding hazardous waste -- can nuclear plant guards even stay awake?
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A German-led study has discovered chemical catalysts that might lead to the use of stranded natural gas, large quantities of which is burned as waste.  Johannes Lercher and colleagues at the Technical University of Munich and the Dow Chemical Co.
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By Traci Watson  Never mind solar panels and windmills. Communities across the nation are turning to an unlikely source of clean energy: garbage.
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LOS ANGELES -- To the untrained eye, the sleek, airy building constructed atop a decommissioned nuclear reactor at the University of California at Los Angeles could pass for high-tech office space.
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Glaskowsky analyzes the latest, and least, idea in alternative energy.
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The Arctic, already a dump for Russian nuclear waste from the Cold War, is also rapidly becoming a chemical sump for the globe, the World Wide Fund for Nature said on Thursday.
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Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory say they have developed a way to produce a truly carbon-neutral fuel using carbon dioxide removed from the air as the raw material.