朝日新聞社3 年
U.S. government works to ‘cocoon’ old nuclear reactors
The federal government is moving forward with the “cocooning” of eight plutonium production reactors at Hanford that will place them in a state of long-term storage to allow radiation inside ...
Scientific American22 天
AI’s Energy Demands Threaten a Nuclear Waste Nightmare
These tech giants recognize that the next generation of microprocessors to be used for AI calculations at data centers will ...
Take a look at huge nuclear submarine compartments’ journey to Tri-Cities resting place
Two more nuclear submarine reactor compartments were floated by barge through the Tri-Cities in October on their way to the Hanford nuclear site. The U.S. Navy does not make its shipment schedule ...
60 workers lose jobs at Hanford nuclear site. Here’s what is changing
It was the last reactor basin used to cool irradiated uranium fuel to be emptied. Hanford has 13,000 workers, based on the number of current security badges, and Central Plateau employed 1,461 ...
Sweeping US energy department layoffs hit offices of loans, nuclear security, sources say
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has laid off about 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy, ...
Tri-City Herald1 个月
What Trump’s energy secretary nominee had to say on Hanford nuclear waste, national lab
Trump’s nominee for energy secretary called finishing the environmental cleanup at the Hanford nuclear site ... startup company developing micro reactors. He graduated from Massachusetts ...