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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.
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I've just signed legislation that'll outlaw Russia forever. We'll begin bombing in five minutes.
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" Most of Japan's electricity is generate by nuclear power plants."
There are serious drawbacks for them to...
This causes Japan lots of problems with Giant dinosaurs and insects duking it out and destroying Tokyo at the same time.
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"Let's call it "Earth injection". (Please put aside jokes about "fucking the Earth".)" Ok, two things. 1. "Oh my god! You fucked Gaia!" 2. We can't drill into the ocean floor or we may awake Cthulhu from his eternal resting place!!!