Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods ...

Nuclear fusion reactors, if and when they become practical ... 6 was banned in the US in 1963 because of the harmful mercury waste it generates. Now researchers have invented a simple ...

or leave behind any hazardous waste as with the fission process behind commercial nuclear power plants. However, there are several hurdles in the way of creating a viable fusion reactor ...

In contrast, gamma radiation is abundant in fission and fusion environments ... Their ability to convert hazardous nuclear waste into electricity also presents an opportunity to repurpose ...

A robotic dog has again shown its value to the Dounreay decommissioning programme by carrying out a task that was beyond the ...

That makes the minerals very difficult and dirty to mine and then refine: For every ton of rare earths dug up, 2,000 tons of toxic waste ... like astrophysics, nuclear fusion, and semiconductors.

Canadian firm AtkinsRéalis deployed a customized Boston Dynamics Spot robot at Sellafield, conducting inspections and tasks in hazardous ... in nuclear decommissioning and fusion energy ...

MULBERRY, Fla. — A pilot road project years in the making using slightly radioactive waste material is underway in Polk ...