http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/topic/4262 Stories within a topic (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/new-report-highlights-safe-secure-method-managing-spent-nuclear-fuel <!--paging_filter--><p>A joint Harvard University/University of Tokyo team of nuclear energy, nonproliferation, and waste management experts concludes in a new study that technologies are available to store spent nuclear fuel from hundreds of nuclear power plants around the world safely and securely for decades to come. To overcome political obstacles that have limited options for storage of spent nuclear fuel, the report urges a new, more democratic, more flexible, and more transparent approach to managing such material. The new study, Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Safe, Flexible, and Cost-Effective Near-Term Approach to Spent Fuel Management, addresses the technical, economic, safety, security, and political issues surrounding storage of spent nuclear fuel in both the United States and Japan.<p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/new-report-highlights-safe-secure-method-managing-spent-nuclear-fuel">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:09:37 -0400 70652986 3845 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/ultracold-trap-unveils-secrets-matter-universe <!--paging_filter--><p>Physics Professor John Doyle traps the tiny particles that make up the universe and then studies them, looking for what they can tell him about the most basic rules of nature. Specifically, Doyle is looking for evidence of discrepancies in the theory known as the Standard Model, the major theory of how the basic particles of nature interact. The Model, Doyle said, was constructed using certain assumptions about how particles behave. As measurements of those particles become more and more precise, scientists like Doyle are better able to test those assumptions. From their work comes a better understanding of how the universe operates. Doyle is one of the world's foremost experts in trapping cold particles.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/ultracold-trap-unveils-secrets-matter-universe">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:10:29 -0400 70652986 2908 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu