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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.
Out of interest are there any countries that havent been an enemy of the US at some stage? There is also the problem that some very few US forces seem to have trouble with this whole "Ally" business. "Hey bubba, that guys got an inkerlish sign on his shoulder" "Wow, we were at war with them a couple of hundred years ago, lets shoot him for great grandpoppy" "Where is britishland anyway?" "I heard its near those pinko Frenchlanders.." (With apologies to any real US armed forces out there, i am well aware most of you are not idiot rednecks, US Politicians however.... :-)
What about our water supply. Since WWII our water has been flooded with toxic chemicals coming out of detergents and flouride. It's been 60 years, and our world is suffering from a boost of cancer rate every year. Stop nuclear use, we are ok. Stop water use, we are fucked.