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Amec Working on Long-Term Nuclear Waste Solution

Posted by Hemos on from the be-good-if-it-works dept.

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.

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  1. Cue the inevitable! by jimhill · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Cue the inevitable! by GigsVT · · Score: 5, Funny

      Bah, its simple. They just need to encase the waste in nickle, bury it 100 feet underground, or maybe just dump it in an old missle silo. Then keep records in the computer so they don't loose track of it.

      The people soley responsible for it is the government. If they have to, they could pass an amenment to the charter of the DOE to take care of it. The heirarchy of government would probly ensure accountability. Its rediculus to think that no one has thought of this before.

      Of course, all these plans have a kernal of validity to them, but most of them are just BS that the CEO of these companies can talk about at some speach to investors.

      Thank $diety that those people usually don't get much political power. ;)

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  2. Nice! by Opalima · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Wiley Coyote by tgv · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was I the only one that read "ACME" instead of Amec?