The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast ...

The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast ...

The Department of Energy said Wednesday it has deposited its first big batch of glass logs, made from liquid radioactive tank waste, at the Hanford Site’s ...

For this project, I'll be making radioactive uranium glass, which was very popular 100 years ago. Under a blacklight, the ...

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Fionna Samuels about the use of ...

A Soviet submarine that lies at the bottom of the Norwegian Sea is leaking small but non-hazardous amounts of radiation 1. In 1989, the Komsomolets burst into flames and sank, taking with it the ...

Every year, millions of shipments of radioactive material are transported by land, air and sea. These materials are crucial for medicine, industry, research, agriculture and energy production. Because ...

To produce actinium-227, the isotope used for an FDA-approved cancer treatment, the first step is to bombard targets of the radioisotope radium-226 in ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). The ...

Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben's discovery of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 helped usher in a new era of dating artifacts from past civilizations. When you purchase through links on our ...

In the dim light of an antique shop, it looks like nothing more than a curious relic of the Victorian era—a pale, honey-yellow bowl or a delicate lemon-tinted vase. But flick a switch, bathe the room ...