Radioactive Waste 359 - Penn State Is Working On A Department Of Energy Grant For The Recovery Of Rare-Earth Elements During Uranium Recycling

       Penn State University has just received an eight hundred thousand dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to research new methods for removing rare-earth fission products from molten salt baths which are used to electro-refine and reduce nuclear wastes during the recycling of uranium. The grant will be used to study the efficient recovery of rare-earth elements using liquid metals.

Nuclear Fusion 52 - Chinese Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak Achieves Breakthrough Tempurature

       The Chinese are committed to a new fleet of nuclear fission reactors. They are also putting money into a variety of other energy sources including nuclear fusion. Their Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) began operations in 2006 at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASHIPS).

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