During decommissioning, radioactive materials and objects contaminated with radioactivity — from protective clothing to parts of a reactor — are characterized and sorted to ensure waste prevention and ...

Feb. 16, 2024 — Nuclear power is considered one of the ways to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, but how to deal with nuclear waste products is a concern. Radioactive waste products can be ...

1 nuclear plant, shouldered the cost of the cleanup. But the owners of the homes in question are obliged to pick up the tab for relocating so that the buried waste can be removed, according to ...

One major — and false — objection sometimes cited against nuclear power is that “there is no solution to the nuclear waste problem”. Spent nuclear fuel that has not been reprocessed remains radiotoxic ...