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Breaking the Nuclear Waste Logjam |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Daniel Gibson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,844 Words, 18,360 Characters |
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Particle accelerators have been around for several decades, but today researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico are investigating a new generation of accelerators that could offer solutions to several vexing problems facing mankind. Perhaps most importantly, these new accelerators might help in the disposal of the mountains of nuclear waste created through 40 years of nuclear weapons production and energy generation.
In addition, there is a chance they could provide a significant new method of generating electricity both from nuclear wastes and from uranium ore. These accelerators also may assume an important role in nuclear weapons disarmament programs. Finally, they might also offer a new means of producing a radioactive gas, tritium, to be used in new nucle...
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...y, there are many important policy decisions and technological hurdles to be cleared before the LANL transmutation process sees the light of day. But with nuclear waste piling up around the world, gridlock facing the repository programs, and no other demonstrable means of safely isolating or treating it, accelerator transmutation may represent a glimmer of hope on an otherwise bleak horizon.
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