{"id":4093,"date":"2026-03-19T13:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:37:11","slug":"the-download-quantum-computing-for-health-and-why-the-world-doesnt-recycle-more-nuclear-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=4093","title":{"rendered":"The Download: Quantum computing for health, and why the world doesn&#8217;t recycle more nuclear waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The prize will go to the quantum computer that can solve real health care problems that conventional \u201cclassical\u201d computers are unable to solve. But there can be only one big winner\u2014if there is a winner at all.\u00a0Read the full story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Michael Brooks<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why the world\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0recycle more nuclear waste<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>There\u2019s\u00a0still a lot of usable uranium in spent nuclear fuel when\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0pulled out of reactors. Recycling could reduce both the waste and the need to mine new material, but the process is costly, complicated, and not fully efficient.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Find out\u00a0why it\u2019s such an issue.\u00a0<em>\u2014Casey Crownhart<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>This\u00a0<\/strong><strong>story<\/strong><strong>\u00a0is from\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The Spark<\/strong><strong>, MIT Technology Review\u2019s weekly climate newsletter. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The must-reads\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve\u00a0combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>1\u00a0The\u00a0FBI has confirmed\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0buying Americans&#8217; location data\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>Director Kash Patel said\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0led to \u201cvaluable intelligence.\u201d (Politico)\u00a0<br \/><em>+ What AI \u201cremembers\u201d about you is privacy\u2019s next frontier.\u00a0<\/em>(MIT Technology Review)\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>2 The first draft of a federal AI bill has been introduced<\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>It aims to protect \u201cchildren, creators, conservatives, and communities.\u201d (Engadget)\u00a0<br \/><em>+ A war is brewing over AI regulation in the US.\u00a0<\/em>(MIT Technology Review)\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#Download #Quantum #computing #health #world #doesnt #recycle #nuclear #waste<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prize will go to the quantum computer that can solve real health care problems&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4026,4027,683,803,1088,412,4008,4002,4025,3885,920],"class_list":["post-4093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-and-why-the-world-doesn039t-recycle-more-nuclear-waste","tag-computing","tag-doesnt","tag-download","tag-health","tag-nuclear","tag-quantum","tag-recycle","tag-the-download-quantum-computing-for-health","tag-waste","tag-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Q4bio.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Q4bio-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Q4bio-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Q4bio-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Q4bio-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Q4bio.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Q4bio.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Q4bio-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Q4bio-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=7\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}