When Sarah Cooper goes secondhand shopping, she brings a little blacklight with her and shines it on everything—candlesticks, vases, dishware. If it starts glowing, often a Ghostbusters hue of neon ...

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We think of radioactive material as something buried away in bunkers with bombs, power plants, and maybe some exotic medical equipment. But turns out, there are little bits of radiation in the water, ...

RICHLAND, Wa. — Researchers in Richland have done what the $17 billion vitrification plant at Hanford is intended to do — turn radioactive waste into a solid glass form. Over about 24 hours last month ...

Using fragments of radioactive glass picked up from the site of the first nuclear bomb explosion in the United States, scientists are trying to explain the mystery behind the formation of the moon and ...

Researchers in Richland have done what the $17 billion vitrification plant at Hanford is intended to do — turn radioactive waste into a solid glass form. Over about 24 hours last month researchers ran ...

Glass is a chemically durable wasteform for immobilizing radioactive waste. However, high levels of radioactivity generated by glassy wasteforms will persist over extensive time scales, requiring long ...

The vitrification plant at the Hanford site has hit a new milestone — pouring glass for the first time since construction began 21 years ago. “This marks another important step in commissioning the ...