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Amec Working on Long-Term Nuclear Waste Solution
Ckwop writes "The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Amec, the company that cleaned up Ground Zero, have developed a new process for storing nuclear waste that lasts two hundred thousand years - far longer than any radioactivity will last. The process works by mixing eighty percent soil with twenty percent waste and then heating the mixture to three thousand degrees centigrade. When the mixture cools it forms into a glass harder than concrete. While this is not the first waste process of this type it is the first to be cost effective and produces a glass much harder than previous methods. " We'll see if we still need a ten mile field of spikes I guess. A pilot facility is being built in Washington State.
Bring forth your ignorant, your undereducated and uneducated, your readers of dubious websites, and maybe, just maybe, one or two people who actually know what they're talking about.
Time for another nuclear waste disposal imbroglio!
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Cool - imagine an entire line of quasi-radioactive collectibles to decorate your Xmas tree and decorate that shelf above the fireplace that needs that something special.
Was I the only one that read "ACME" instead of Amec?
Ground Zero, have developed a new process for storing nuclear waste that lasts two hundred thousand years
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I won't believe them until they have done it just once. Until then it theoretically lasts two hundred thousand years
Glowing glass spikes would be even cooler than lava lamps. (Yes, you'd have to mix stuff in to get the glow.) And they'd last for generations of stunted mutant troglodytes with no use of fossil fuels--talk about your green power!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Why don't they just form it into a nice little arrow/bullet shape and use that instead of depleted uranium in the military.... That way it will be in one of 3 places, a firing range, a foreign country, or an enemy of the US. :) Ready.... aim.... glow.........
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From a distance, hopefully :)
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This could give the Diaper Genie a run for it's money!
They need to shape it as something interesting and pass it on as prices or bonuses.
Like you get a small glow-in-the-dark Wolverine figure, when you see X-Men n, and you even get a chance at having X-Men like kids of your own!
It's just at questing of selling it right.
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How are you going to heat an entire building to 3,000 degrees?
Rumor has it that nuclear waste is warm.
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A reptoid FBI agent told this, so it must be true.
The rocket would melt before getting there. They'd have to send it at night.
Obviously, he was talking about a jumbo jet crashing into a football stadium during a game. Where's the imagination?
One time I threw a brick at a duck.
uneducated people digged out radioactive materials
Too easy... this just has to be a troll.
GREAT, just what we need, radioactive volcano-monsters!
A hundred nuclear fission plants using the safer pebble technology and a really solid waste storage approach would go a long way to weaning the U.S. and its allies off the Wahhabi oil machine. They could generate hydrogen during low demand times for use in fuel cell vehicles and straight power for peak time use, and solar power could fill in the gaps.
Now you're just being sensible and that's just not allowed. You'll have to go beat yourself over the head with a shovel until you start to believe that Joey is the height of comedy genius.
Heating the soil up that high to melt it into glass will also vaporize the lead and send it into the air.
...which you capture and sell - Profit!
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