One of the issues involving nuclear power has been what to do with the waste materials. What if there was a way to not only convert the problematic materials into a safer storage form, but also enable that same storage form to be used as fuel in newer nuclear power generators? Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?
That may have changed:
https://phys.org/news/2020-05-reveals-single-step-strategy-recycling-nuclear.html
I would prefer more 'green' sources of energy production, but this is something that may be useful to help that along, making coal and petroleum energy production a part of history.
Journal Reference
Jeffrey D. Einkauf, Jonathan D. Burns. Recovery of Oxidized Actinides, Np(VI), Pu(VI), and Am(VI), from Cocrystallized Uranyl Nitrate Hexahydrate: A Single Technology Approach to Used Nuclear Fuel Recycling, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.0c00381)
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2020, @06:06AM (1 child)
To whom it may concern:
Credit for this post goes to whoever made the keyboard it was typed on, their supervisors, managers, corporate directors, their CEO, the shipping company that brought it to my country, the captain that sailed the ship, the dock workers that unloaded the freight, the truck driver that hauled the freight to the distributor's warehouse, the retail store that had the foresight to see that I would personally need to buy this particular keyboard, the cashier that rang up the purchase, the people that printed the money I used in the transaction, the bank that had the ATM that gave me the money when I used it, the people that made the ATM card I used to withdraw that money, and so on...
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Dear parent AC, I get the joke. I ain't laughing, but I get it.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday May 07 2020, @08:58PM
Anon, you forgot to credit the successor to the military project ARPANET without which the concept of 'post' would be limited to some BBS or compuserve service.
Account abandoned.