Waste

Nuclear waste

Sellafield AI Strategy ‘To Boost Safety and Speed up Site Remediation'

The UK's Sellafield nuclear facility has unveiled its AI (artificial intelligence) strategy intended to improve efficiency and safety, with the goal that by…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Budget Airline Easyjet Throws Support Behind Hydrogen Planes for Short-Haul Flights

The UK-based airline is on board to end flight emissions with clean technologies like hydrogen.Unlike other European airlines focused on investing in alternativ…

Geothermal Power Plant

Pilot Project in Bern, Switzerland Explores Geo-Storage of Heat From Waste Disposal

The Geospeicher pilot project by ewb in Bern, Switzerland aims to store waste heat from a waste incineration facility in an underground reservoir 500 meters dee…

Nuclear Power Plant

More Leaks Shut Down Monticello NPP

US power company Xcel Energy has shut down its Monticello NPP after an additional water leak was detected following previous reports about the leak of 400,000 g…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Probing Where Protons Go to Develop Better Fuel Cells

Solid oxide fuel cells, or SOFC, are a type of electrochemical device that generates electricity using hydrogen as fuel, with the only 'waste' product b…

Energy Storage Battery

Chemists Create Carbon Materials for Energy Storage Device From Brewery Waste

Modern energy storage systems are an important building block for a climate-friendly future. "Modern" means not only that their performance meets the demands of…

Energy Saving

Recycling of Fruit Waste Into a Solar Absorber for Water Desalination

Scientists from the National Institute of Education/Nanyang Technological University of Singapore developed a method for converting fruit wastes such as coconut…

Thermal Plant

INNIO's Wuhan Waste-to-Energy Project Enters Phase II With Commissioning of Six Additional Jenbacher J320 Engines

- Jenbacher technology generates 14.9 MW of flexible, scalable, and resilient power from captured landfill gas - enough to power 35,000 homes in Wuhan- Jenbache…

Energy Technology

Innovative Filtration System Shortens Schedule and Delivers Radwaste Savings

BWR spent fuel pool dual SCF system with shields.The return of low natural gas prices combined with the advent of high efficiency renewables has placed more pre…

Nuclear waste

Krško Dry Storage Facility for Used Fuel Preparing for Launch

Slovenia's project to build a dry storage facility for used fuel is set to be completed later this year with the transfer of the first 592 used fuel element…

Nuclear waste

Deep Borehole Disposal Suitable for Some UK Wastes, Report Finds

Deep borehole disposal cannot replace the UK's need for a geological disposal facility (GDF) but may nevertheless have a helpful role to play in the disposa…

Nuclear waste

Hanford Restarts Liquid Waste Treatment After Maintenance Outage

Workers change out spent 27,000-pound TSCR filter columns and place them on a nearby storage pad during a planned outage. (Photo: DOE)Following a second planned…

Biofuel

World’s Largest Biofuel Program Places a Risky Bet

But the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard faces even larger problemsChevron—whose oil refinery on the Mississippi River in New Orleans is pictured here—has develop…

Thermal Plant

Doosan šKoda Turbine Heads to Scottish Energy-From-Waste Facility

South Clyde Energy Centre, courtesy Doosan Škoda PowerCzech equipment supplier Doosan Škoda Power will supply a steam turbine for an Energy-from-W…

Nuclear waste

Although the Water Will Be Treated to Remove Most Radioactive Materials, It Will Still Contain Tritium, a Radioactive Form of Hydrogen That Is Technically Difficult to Separate From Water.

According to a study published in 2003, a substantial part of the world's radioactive contamination is in the marine environment. This picture shows storage…