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Chemistry World July 31, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Bury Radioactive Waste, UK Government Told Radioactive waste should be stored deep underground at sites where local communities have had the opportunity to participate in, and even withdraw from, the planning process.  |
Chemistry World September 2006 Neil Hyatt |
Comment: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? The recent recommendations from the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management should prompt a renewed research effort to tackle the problems of nuclear waste storage in the UK.  |
Chemistry World February 6, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Nuclear Storage: Ready, Willing, Able, and Undecided A report into the UK's long term nuclear waste storage plans has concluded there are no insurmountable technical barriers to storing nuclear waste deep underground. Between a third and two-thirds of the UK is geologically suitable for storing waste.  |
Chemistry World February 15, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
UK Nuclear Policy Setback UK government plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations have suffered a setback after a public consultation on nuclear power was condemned by a High Court judge as 'inadequate' and 'misleading'.  |
Chemistry World December 1, 2006 Victoria Gill |
Organophosphate Study Reprieved A landmark study into the human health effects of organophosphate chemicals used in sheep dip will resume, according to the UK's Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs.  |
Chemistry World July 14, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
UK Government Unveils Energy Plans The UK government's long-awaited Energy Review contains great opportunities for chemists, but fails to pledge the research funding needed to meet the country's commitment to renewable energy.  |
Chemistry World January 10, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Green Light for UK Nuclear Power The UK government has formally announced its long-awaited decision to support a new generation of nuclear power stations. Scientists, while welcoming the government's decision, also warned that plenty of detailed decisions remained.  |
Chemistry World March 6, 2012 Simon Perks |
Special Treatment for Scientists Under Immigration Rules Scientists traveling to work in the UK will be exempt from rules on settling in the country.  |
Geotimes May 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Yucca Mountain e-Mails Reviewed The content of e-mails sent by U.S. Geological Survey employees that raised concern over work at Yucca Mountain -- site of the controversial future nuclear waste repository in Nevada -- should not affect the final scientific assessments of the site, according to an analysis.  |
Chemistry World June 15, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Bonding behavior unlocked for uranium -- arsenic complex The discovery may help to improve the performance of chemical treatments used to recycle nuclear waste.  |
Chemistry World January 10, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Atomic Inspection for Nuclear Waste Storage Scientists have announced a new way to assess the safety of storing nuclear waste. Already, the method has shown that the ceramic mineral zircon, a candidate for storing nuclear waste for over 250,000 years, would lose its ordered structure in a far shorter time.  |
Chemistry World November 20, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Nuclear waste research resurfaces The UK government's recent announcement of a significant expansion for nuclear power generation has rekindled the debate over the safe disposal of radioactive waste.  |
Chemistry World May 23, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
UK Government Reveals Energy Plans Scientists have cautiously welcomed the UK government's drive towards renewable energy and nuclear power.  |
Chemistry World September 27, 2006 Victoria Gill |
Defra Leaves Organophosphate Study Hanging in the Balance A study into the potentially damaging mental health effects of organophosphates may be brought to a premature close by the government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, after a medical and scientific review panel questioned its research protocol.  |
Chemistry World April 12, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Nuclear Power to Save the Planet The UK's chief scientific adviser, David King, has reiterated his support for nuclear power. King supports the rebuilding of decommissioned nuclear power plants in the UK to reduce dependence on fossil fuels in the next 15 years.  |
IEEE Spectrum July 2008 Sally Adee |
U.S. Critics Hope to Halt Nuclear-Waste Imports Utah firm wants Italian isotopes  |
Geotimes December 2004 Laura Stafford |
Yucca on hold The Department of Energy likely will not meet its 2010 deadline to open up the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage site.  |
Geotimes January 2005 Fred Schwab |
Mount Everest, Nevada The United States entered the nuclear age more than a half-century ago, but has not yet resolved what to do with nuclear waste.  |
Chemistry World April 28, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Scientists asked how to spend UK science cash The UK government is asking the scientific community what the portion of the science budget set aside for infrastructure should be spent on over the next five years.  |
Chemistry World September 22, 2006 |
Monitoring Environmental Risks of Nanotech The UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has launched a scheme to assess the potential risks of nanotechnology.  |
Chemistry World January 2008 Mark Peplow |
Editorial: All change The new year sees John Beddington begin his tenure as the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser. He has a tough job and a hard act to follow.  |
Wired April 2003 David Ewing Duncan |
Do-or-Die at Yucca Mountain The regulatory tug-of-war over Nevada's nuclear waste dump has dragged on for decades. Meanwhile, temporary sites across the country are overflowing with radioactive fuel rods -- making them perfect targets for terror.  |
Geotimes July 2006 Linda Rowan |
Expanding Nuclear Options The Bush administration recently proposed significant changes to U.S. nuclear policy to resolve some of our current waste disposal problems and to accelerate the development of new nuclear power capacity.  |
Chemistry World July 24, 2008 Victoria Gill |
Go ahead for UK national nuclear lab The UK government has given the go-ahead to establishing a national nuclear laboratory (NNL), and launched a competition to find it a commercial operator.  |
Chemistry World June 2006 |
Comment: RSC Prepared for the Future Simon Campbell reflects on the Royal Society of Chemistry's achievements during his presidency.  |
National Defense January 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Future of Nuclear Energy Hinges on Recycling Technology The industry's Achilles' heel is the radioactive waste that is produced in the process of generating power, experts say.  |
Chemistry World July 27, 2011 Sean Milmo |
UK government sets aside 1000 places for top researchers The UK chemistry sector has given a mostly cool response to a government scheme to attract top chemists, chemical engineers and other scientists from outside the EU, while tightening restrictions on immigration.  |
Chemistry World January 2007 Sue Ferns |
Comment: Who's Looking After British Science? As the union representing public sector scientists in the UK, Prospect is calling for urgent action to stem the loss of key science research facilities and staff.  |
Chemistry World October 7, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
Los Alamos lab's safety lapses faulted for radioactive leak A radioactive material leak that affected 22 workers and closed the US's only permanent nuclear waste repository was likely the result of a failure to follow safety procedures.  |
Chemistry World May 17, 2011 Meera Senthilingam |
UK report calls for new approach to strategic metals The UK will need to secure supplies of strategic metals or future economic growth will be put at risk, a Science and Technology Committee report warns.  |
Chemistry World November 25, 2010 Mike Brown |
Capping scientific migrants A new UK immigration cap could bias against researchers looking to come to the UK.  |
Chemistry World March 17, 2011 Ned Stafford |
Uncertainty for nuclear power Political fallout from the Japanese disaster has spread to Europe and will no doubt have a lasting impact on nuclear power policy and research funding.  |
Chemistry World February 25, 2009 Victoria Gill |
Nano-regulation creeps closer Canada has introduced a mandatory safety reporting scheme for companies producing nanomaterials, becoming the first country in the world to do so.  |
Popular Mechanics December 29, 2008 Jeremy Jacquot |
3 Projects We Hope to See From the DOE's Next Nuclear Research Facility Studying rare nuclear isotopes with unstable, short-lived nuclei has plenty of practical and commendable applications in medicine, national security, and cosmology.  |
Chemistry World March 31, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Fears UK government scientists could be gagged by new rules Recent changes to the civil service code could make it harder for UK government scientists to talk to the media, leading to 'misinformation' about key scientific issues among the public.  |
Chemistry World March 12, 2014 Maria Burke |
UK government urged to cash in on waste Rather than seeing waste as a problem, the government should consider it a valuable resource, says a report by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee.  |