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Newly Discovered Crystal Rids Radioactive Waste

Courtney Lepping — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 07:14:31 +0000

How can radioactive waste from nuclear-fuel reprocessing plants be banished? Nature Communications published research by scientists at the national level at EPFL and the U.S. on SBMOF-1, a material deemed a metal-organic framework. This type of crystal absorbs radioactive waste better than current options. Not only can the nanoporous crystal, which contains materials known to […]

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Possible Solution for Storing Nuclear Waste Comes From MIT

Mike Sandru — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:43:12 +0000

The earthquake that hit Japan recently has got every state with nuclear waste thinking: what if the leak should happen to us? What then? So the United States are currently reviewing their nuclear waste policy in search of a better way to store residues. Otherwise, the current facilities are a somewhat easy target for natural disasters and terrorist attacks.

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Green Algae Able to Eliminate Radioactive Strontium from Water and Nuclear Waste

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:26:33 +0000

Just like hound dogs sniffing around for burglars, Closterium moniliferum, an green alga that usually lives in ponds, could sniff and eliminate radioactive strontium 90 (Sr-90) from water and from existing nuclear waste. 80 million gallons of radioactive nuclear waste are already stored in the United States. The discovery has been made by Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory researchers.

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Small Bead Polymer Reduces the Amount of Radioactive Waste Generated by Nuclear Power Plants

Cristi — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:33:47 +0000

The disposal of the old core rods and also the reactor operation results in a large amount of low-level waste, especially contaminated cooling water. But nuclear power could solve our energy problem if only we could find a way to make it clean.

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Soil-Based Stinky Bacteria To Be Used in Cleaning Radioactive Waste

Cristi — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:09:40 +0000

A chemistry professor from the University of Missouri may have found a way to clean radioactive metal contamination. The bacteria-based solution is able to work in this challenging business where most of technologies were too expensive or sometimes did not work.

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