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Could deep boreholes solve our nuclear waste problem?

Expanding / An artist’s impression of a deep borehole for nuclear waste disposal by Sandia National Laboratories in 2012. The red line shows the mined repository depth. Onkalo is from Finland and WIPP is the US DOE repository for defense…

No One Knows If Decades-Old Nukes Would Actually Work

flattened cities, millions of people were burned to death and were further afflicted by the fallout. That dire future may seem strange to some, but that’s because no country since 1945 has detonated a nuclear weapon in a conflict. Russia…

North Carolina Business Magnate Indicted in $2bn Fraud Case

A businessman and major political donor has been indicted for masterminding a ‘massive’ $2 billion scheme to defraud regulators and thousands of policyholders. Greg Lindbergh, 53, of Durham, North Carolina, allegedly colluded with others to invest nearly $2 billion in…