The answer, at first, is boring: it’s a simple no. But the reasons why you cannot are complex and varied – some come from the ...

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EU’s €2.3 million push to recycle nuclear waste into rare earth elements critical for everything from smartphones to MRI ...

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Three women who own properties in Elliot Lake, ON are disappointed and shocked after a federal judge rejected their appeal to order the removal of radioactive mine waste rock around their homes.

These radioactive isotopes can then break down to produce new elements. Meanwhile, some atoms of uranium-238 can absorb neutrons and become plutonium and other transuranic elements. When enough of ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted preliminary approval for a pilot project allowing Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC to construct a road using phosphogypsum – a radioactive byproduct ...

To start with, the rare earth elements occupy the lanthanide series on the periodic table – the top row ... Leaving out the radioactive rare earth element promethium, of which there is barely ...