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All nuclear power plants ultimately will produce radioactive waste. We must find a way to dispose or "harness" this waste. The current "solution" of placing/burying it in the ground, is not a real solution, it only delays or hides the problem.
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Carlo Rubbia, a Nobel Prize nuclear physicist and former director of CERN published a proposal for a sub-critical reactor based on a proton cyclotron accelerator with a beam energy of 800 MeV to 1 GeV...
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Spent nuclear fuel rods radiate a nearly constant amount of heat for several years. In fact, these rods must be kept under water at all times in order to manage the deadly cargo they contain.
It o...
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Active wastes can be treated with what is called Ion Exchange which distills the radioactivity into a smaller volume of matter. After the treatment the radioactive matter can often be more easily disp...
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The Canadian Concept is the disposal of high level nuclear waste in the plutonic rock of the Canadian Shield. This concept was deemed technologically feasible by the Seaborn Panel following National H...
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Innovative Solutionsfor Disposal of Nuclear Waste |
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"Phytoremediation or the use of plants to degrade, extract, contain or immobilize contaminants is a new soft technology that is increasingly being studied as a low-cost approach to remediation Physica...
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Due to decay rates that extend to thousands of years, nuclear waste poses a significant risk no matter where it is stored. However, the use of increasingly safe space vehicles provides an opportunity...
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Commentson Disposal of Nuclear Waste |
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The late DR Brown invented a way to convert the rods directly into electricity - this is from my recent Google "nuclear waste to electricity brown"
A series of press releases from Nuclear Solutio...
- Jerome Morley Larson Sr
Dilute low level waste can be concentrated into small volume residues by steam reforming the organics away (gloves, aprons, plastic boxes) as syngas at 600C. The syngas can be used as ordinary fuel.,...
- Paul Comet
A great deal of nuclear waste is not really waste at all! President Clinton discouraged countries like Spain (where I work) from reprocessing spent fuel, so it can only go through the reactor once, l...
- Tim Potten
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