Oak Ridge looking at reprocessing nuclear waste
APR 28, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024284
NPR : The Obama administration is promoting nuclear power, but at the same time it has put an end to plans to bury nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, Nevada.Now, a blue-ribbon committee is pondering what to do with the waste. One option under consideration is a process that would dramatically reduce its radioactive lifetime.Less than 1% of spent reactor fuel is made up of the nasty radioactive elements that last hundreds of thousands of years.And Sherrell Greene at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee says the technology to remove those elements from waste is as old as nuclear reactors themselves. Related link Laser nuclear technology might pose security risk
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