Matt D.
03-22-2010, 07:51 PM
Here you go, Tom. :)
Planned Nuclear Reactors Will Destroy Atomic Waste
A group of French scientists are developing a nuclear reactor that burns up actinides — highly radioactive uranium isotopes (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/utilities/article7070403.ece). They estimate that 'the volume of high-level nuclear waste produced by all of France’s 58 reactors over the past 40 years could fit in one Olympic-size swimming pool.' And they're not the only ones trying to eliminate atomic waste (http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/03/22/new-nuclear-reactors-may-almost-completely-destroy-atomic-waste/): Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin are working on a fusion-fission reactor (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/01/30/1415200/Fusion-Fission-System-Burns-Hot-Radioactive-Waste). The reactor destroys waste by firing streams of neutrons at it, reducing atomic waste by up to 99 percent.
Planned Nuclear Reactors Will Destroy Atomic Waste
A group of French scientists are developing a nuclear reactor that burns up actinides — highly radioactive uranium isotopes (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/utilities/article7070403.ece). They estimate that 'the volume of high-level nuclear waste produced by all of France’s 58 reactors over the past 40 years could fit in one Olympic-size swimming pool.' And they're not the only ones trying to eliminate atomic waste (http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/03/22/new-nuclear-reactors-may-almost-completely-destroy-atomic-waste/): Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin are working on a fusion-fission reactor (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/01/30/1415200/Fusion-Fission-System-Burns-Hot-Radioactive-Waste). The reactor destroys waste by firing streams of neutrons at it, reducing atomic waste by up to 99 percent.