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06 Jul 2023

Japan To Dump Radioactive Nuclear Waste Water In Pacific Ocean, Why Has it Become so Controversial?

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog is set to give its backing to Japan’s plan to release millions of tonnes of treated radioactive water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi power plant into the Pacific Ocean.

28 Jun 2017

Nuclear waste containers shipped on river in Germany

Police were protecting the barge with helicopters, police boats and officers on the banks of the rivers against possible protests by anti-nuclear activists.

12 Mar 2017

This is how to 'fish out' toxic radioactive elements from nuclear waste

Researchers reported the first examples of thorium with multiple bonds to arsenic to exist under ambient conditions on multi-gram scales where before they had only been prepared on very small scales at temperatures approaching that of interstellar space.

06 Jan 2016

Graphene can efficiently filter nuclear waste

The 'wonder material' graphene can be used to clean up nuclear waste by filtering different isotopes of hydrogen, a new study has found.

05 Dec 2015

Ship carrying nuclear waste arrives in Australia

A ship carrying 25 tonnes of radioactive waste arrived back in Australia on Saturday, met by activists who warned against the vast nation becoming a nuclear dumping ground.

16 Oct 2015

'Unsafe' nuclear waste ship heads for Australia

The 25 tonnes of nuclear waste comes from Areva's reprocessing plant in Beaumont-Hague, near the port of Cherbourg, from where the ship set sail on Thursday.

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