Cleanup of Cold War nuclear waste drags on

Russia The Dirtiness of the Cold War : Russia ’ s Nuclear Waste in the Arctic

Introduction During the Cold War, the United States and the former Soviet Union amassed extensive nuclear arsenals in a race of intimidation. Rapid manufacture of nuclear weapons produced large amounts of radioactive waste, and both sides sought the easiest means for waste removal. Russia generally disposed of its nuclear waste by a convenient and expeditious method: dumping it into the Arctic ...

Accidental nuclear war--a post-cold war assessment.

BACKGROUND In the 1980s, many medical organizations identified the prevention of nuclear war as one of the medical profession's most important goals. An assessment of the current danger is warranted given the radically changed context of the post-Cold War era. METHODS We reviewed the recent literature on the status of nuclear arsenals and the risk of nuclear war. We then estimated the likely ...

Nuclear waste vitrification efficiency: Cold cap reactions

a r t i c l e i n f o Batch melting takes place within the cold cap, i.e., a batch layer floating on the surface of molten glass in a glass-melting furnace. The conversion of batch to glass consists of various chemical reactions, phase transitions , and diffusion-controlled processes. This study introduces a one-dimensional (1D) mathematical model of the cold cap that describes the batch-to-gla...

HAZARDOUS WASTE: GAO Grades Hanford Cleanup

The melting of glacial ice that formed in the middle of the twentieth century may be a source of a cocktail of persistent, bio accumulative toxic substances that can threaten human health and the environment, according to a study by Christian Bogdal, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, and colleagues in the 1 November 2009 issue of Environmental ...

The "Poly-Nuclear" Middle East and the Cold War Paradigm