Radiation News Roundup May 02, 2016 The DOE’s Acting Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy will come to San Juan Capistrano seeking public input on where to stick tons of spent nuclear waste. ocregister.com Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Monday appealed for a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons during a visit to Tehran by his South Korean counterpart, the official IRNA news agency reported. abcnews.go.com In the first study of its kind, scientists collaborating from the University of Washington, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, developed a novel model to take a more intricate look at what happens during the last stages of the fission process. phys.org Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives have lined up to quietly kill a cost estimate of the Pentagon’s three-decade nuclear modernization program, which experts predict will exceed $1 trillion. theintercept.com
