Hitachi

Hitachi, in partnership with MIT, the University of Michigan, and the University of California, Berkeley are working on new reactor designs that use transuranic nuclear waste for fuel; leaving behind only short-lived radioactive elements.

With the world’s first laser enrichment plant having received US approval for production in 2012, the stage has been set for a radical change in the industry. So how does laser enrichment work, and what commercial benefits, along with proliferation concerns, does this new process present?

Hitachi has unveiled a new glass-based data storage technology, which is said to be able to store information virtually forever.