The completion of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Aomori Prefecture will be delayed by two years, the 26th postponement since the project started three decades ago. Senior officials with Japan ...

Advances in minimally invasive surgery have enabled patients to visit outpatient gastrointestinal facilities for procedures rather than hospital operating rooms. Infection prevention is a top priority ...

Plutonium is “the stuff out of which atomic bombs are made.” Plutonium can also be used as a nuclear fuel. Reprocessing is any technology that extracts plutonium from used nuclear fuel. In Canada, the ...

Every healthcare facility faces the same challenge: to reduce costs without sacrificing the delivery of quality care. As a result of dwindling healthcare reimbursements, and increased awareness of ...

One of the many obstacles to reaching an arms-control agreement with North Korea revolves around the risk that undeclared, clandestine nuclear facilities might exist in that country, which—if they ...

I was taking out the trash and recycling the other day, and as I was dumping things into the cans-and-bottles bin and the paper-and-cardboard bin, I started thinking about radioactive waste. Because ...

Each year, hospitals in the U.S. generate 5.9 million tons of medical waste.1 Practice Greenhealth estimates that 29 pounds of waste is generated per staffed bed per day.2 With such a large impact on ...

South Korea's push for nuclear-powered submarines and efforts to secure uranium enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Changing patients’ pain-related beliefs via psychological treatment appeared to offer them durable relief for ...