Amec Working on Long-Term Nuclear Waste Solution

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Amec Working on Long-Term Nuclear Waste Solution

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 27, 2004 @12:35AM 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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Re:Cue the inevitable! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-27 00:51 · Score: -1, Offtopic

nickle, missle, lopse, soly, admendment, speach, kernal, probly, rediculous, daity, hiarchy
Yes, the U.S. is playing God again by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-27 01:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

And won't stop until they have control of everything.

Bush/Kerry, no difference.

What do you expect from a nation that was built on slavery?
Re:Cue the inevitable! by the+pickle · 2004-09-27 01:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Insightful??? Are you kidding me?

Obviously this guy is joking. And if he's not, he's a troll. But I tend to think he's joking ;)

p

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Re:Cue the inevitable! by strictfoo · 2004-09-27 01:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic

lol... I got an insightful mod?

Cookies for me!

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Re:Cue the inevitable! by TrentTheWiseA · 2004-09-27 03:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Wish I had mod points today, this one deserves another funny
Washington Period by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-27 04:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Hi! What state do you live in? Delaware State? New Jersey State? I live in Washington. Some narrowminded east coast monkeys can't seem to grok that it is Washington. The District of Columbia is Washington D.C. My state is Washington.

Washington, Washington D.C.
Washington, Washington D.C.

Say it with me a few times. You'll get it....
Re:...USA has not built nuclear plants since 1970s by Nazmun · 2004-09-27 08:25 · Score: 1, Offtopic

" 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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Re:Subduction zones? by BluRBD!E · 2004-09-27 10:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"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!!!