Tracking nuclear emissions

Ever since the nuclear power plant leak in Fukushima, Japan that began in 2011, nuclear energy has come under increased criticism from some camps as a dangerous power source.

But now, two of Colorado’s universities are poised to try and make nuclear energy a safer, more reliable energy option.

The University of Colorado-Boulder and the Colorado School of Mines in Golden will receive approximately $1.6 million to advance their nuclear research programs, it was announced Sept. 20. Both universities’ approved research projects focused on technologies to more accurately measure and track the radioactive emissions and particles that are byproducts of nuclear…