Tag: nuclear waste
“Breakthrough is like taming fire 700,000 years ago”
For the first time in history, US scientists at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have successfully created a nuclear fusion reaction that produces more…
How “Transmutation” could change the search for a nuclear waste dump
Berlin For Guido Houben, the matter is clear: the radioactivity of nuclear waste could be “considerably reduced” by means of transmutation, difficult fission products such as iodine 129 or technetium…
How Switzerland fuels the German repository debate
nuclear waste Low-level and medium-level radioactive nuclear waste in the Morsleben repository: A repository for high-level radioactive waste is still being sought in Germany. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Switzerland’s decision to…
Swiss nuclear waste repository on the German border: plans cause concern
nuclear waste Switzerland apparently wants to build a repository for nuclear waste. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Switzerland’s plans to build a nuclear waste repository on the border with Germany have met…
Switzerland wants to build a nuclear waste repository near the border with Germany
nuclear waste Switzerland apparently wants to build a repository for nuclear waste. (Photo: dpa) Bern Switzerland wants to build the repository for nuclear waste on the border with Germany, a…
Switzerland wants to build a nuclear waste repository near the border with Germany
nuclear waste Switzerland apparently wants to build a repository for nuclear waste. (Photo: dpa) Bern Switzerland wants to build the repository for nuclear waste on the border with Germany, a…
Rescue the climate with nuclear energy? Nuclear power will come back
Eva Fischer Eva Fischer, correspondent in the Handelsblatt office in Brussels, analyzes trends and conflicts, regulatory projects and strategic concepts from the inner workings of the EU. Because anyone who…