Halving Half Lives

An anonymous reader writes "PhysicsWeb is reporting that German scientists may have found a way to significantly reduce the radioactive decay time of nuclear waste. This could render the waste harmless in just tens of years and make disposal much less difficult as opposed to current standards. From the article: 'Their proposed technique - which involves slashing the half-life of an alpha emitter by embedding it in a metal and cooling the metal to a few degrees kelvin - could therefore avoid the need to bury nuclear waste in deep repositories, a hugely expensive and politically difficult process. But other researchers are skeptical and believe that the technique contradicts well-established theory as well as experiment.'"

Comments

Re:why bury it all?

[Darundal]

And if something were to happen to the ship when it was taking off, or in space? Radioactive waste would rain down everywhere.

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[Eternauta3k]

But other researchers are skeptical and believe that the technique contradicts well-established theory as well as experiment.'"

To this, the researchers answered with an article titled "We're one of those fancy college-title nuclear scientists"

Re:dumber than an arkansas hound dog, these guys

[geekoid]

RTFA.