Can Pac-Man Save Us From Radioactive Waste?
JAN 17, 2008
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.021850
ScienceNow : If chemicals were people, uranium dioxide would be the guy standing alone with his drink at a party. The world’s most commonly used radioactive substance--and its heaviest natural element--clutches its two oxygen atoms so tightly, it almost never reacts with other compounds. Now researchers report finding a way to pry one oxygen atom loose, potentially opening up safer ways to handle and dispose of this nuclear antisocialite.
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