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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday May 05 2020, @05:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the Not-in-my-back-yard dept.

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)


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2020, @03:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2020, @03:26PM (#990738)

    OK then, well what if we put it in a big pile in the desert and nuke it? Like with hurricanes [theguardian.com]. Surely bleach would dissolve it? I've got all day what else do you need - hey can I get a loan?