Routinely grouting rather than glassifying some of the least radioactive tank waste has the potential to save billions of ...

A catastrophe occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 39 years ago, on 26 April 1986. Its consequences have affected many countries across Europe one way or another but Belarus has been affected ...

Routinely grouting rather than glassifying some of the least radioactive tank waste has the potential to save billions of ...

Inside the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, a new atomic clock named NIST-F4 has begun to tick — not ...

A research team has developed the world's first next-generation betavoltaic cell by directly connecting a radioactive isotope ...

It was history. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series ...

Some 2,000 gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste that had been stored in underground tanks has been shipped off the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington for disposal after it ...

Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Boulder, Colorado.

In cesium fountain clocks, a cloud of around 100,000 cesium atoms is first gradually cooled with lasers. After this, the atoms are lobbed upwards and exposed to microwave radiation. This causes the ...