As pressure mounts on the global mining industry to secure raw materials while reducing environmental harm, a once-overlooked ...

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 ...

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 ...

The lifespan of medical devices is growing longer as more and more hospitals are turning to device reprocessing to cut costs, reduce waste and maximize potential use of these items. Millions of single ...

Electricity prices are rising due to increased demand from technologies such as AI and electrification of equipment, and the ...

After decades of hesitation, the United States is reconsidering nuclear fuel reprocessing—reviving the debate about proliferation risks, cost, technology competitiveness, and energy security. For ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are three types of chronic pain: nociceptive, which occurs from a tissue injury; neuropathic, which occurs from a nerve injury; and nociplastic, which occurs without a clear physical clause, as ...

EMDR is a psychotherapy technique designed to relieve the distress associated with disturbing memories. Short for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, it involves recalling a specific ...

For decades, a third rail of US nuclear power policy has been reprocessing spent fuel and extracting the plutonium. The country has alternately supported and suspended reprocessing over the past ...