In the quest to take the "forever" out of "forever chemicals," bacteria might be our ally. Most remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) involves adsorbing and trapping them, but ...

This once top-secret US military base, built at the height of the Cold War, contained an even more covert mission – storing nuclear missiles in Arctic tunnels. What remains now is an abandoned ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

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Washing labels aren't always the most straightforward to read, and if you don't know what they mean you could end up ruining your clothes. Thankfully the symbols they use are (mostly) universal, so ...

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After all, large nuclear power plants have made a habit, at least in the west, of blowing their initial budgets and running years late. Take Sizewell C, a planned 3.2 gigawatt plant in eastern ...

An innovative effort to redefine nuclear waste management in the European Union has been launched. The “MaLaR – Novel 2D-3D Materials for Lanthanide Recovery from Nuclear Waste” project will ...

Talks held in Geneva between Iran, Britain, France and Germany will see dialogue continue regarding Tehran’s disputed nuclear program, Iran’s official news agency reported on Tuesday.

The reconstituted AEC has Ajit Kumar Mohanty, Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, as its Chairman. The commission has National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, Principal Secretary to the Prime ...

Kairos Power is building reactors cooled by molten salt, specifically a fluorine-containing material called Flibe. The company received a construction permit from the US Nuclear Regulatory ...

At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over.