The disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste in a deep geologic repository is a challenge which has stymied the United States and many other nations since the dawn of the commercial nuclear power industry a half-century ago. The scientific community has consistently endorsed deep geologic repositories ever since ...
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Stanford Women in SpaceThe term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew-members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. In the 50-year history of the NASA space program, only 45 of the 525 astronauts have been women. Seven of these ...
Will Allen - son of a sharecropper, former professional basketball player and ex-corporate sales leader - is now CEO of Growing Power, a farm and community food center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He began by teaching people to apply old-fashioned farming principles to vacant city lots and abandoned commercial buildings and ...
