A research team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, the University of California - Berkeley, and the University of South Florida have developed a low-cost polymer adsorbent that can selectively bind to dissolved uranium in water. A report on the new process has just been published in the Nature Communications journal.
Recently, I wrote about a cube of uranium that was donated to a scientist anonymously. It turned out that it was confiscated from a German laboratory at the end of World War II. Several years ago, a mislabeled sample of radioactive material was discovered in a college chem lab. No one was sure where it came from.
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9. Should the president have to seek specific congressional authorization before ordering a nuclear strike, other than in response to a direct nuclear attack on the US?
5. Should the US nuclear arsenal be restricted to deterrence of a nuclear attack on the US, or should it be used any time the US is at a military disadvantage?
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With the rise in tensions between the U.S. and Russia, the possibility of global nuclear war increases. Russia has been bragging about the fabulous destructive and unstoppable new nuclear weapons that they are developing. They have also been flying nuclear bombers through other nations airspaces and sailing nuclear submarines through other nations territorial waters.