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Post by yggdrasil on Jan 26, 2020 13:46:47 GMT
Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste from “a million years to 30 minutes,” says Nobel laureate bigthink.com/technology-innovation/laser-nuclear-wasteWhatever one thinks of nuclear energy, the process results in tons of radioactive, toxic waste no one quite knows what to do with. As a result, it's tucked away as safely as possible in underground storage areas where it's meant to remain a long, long time: The worst of it, uranium 235 and plutonium 239, have a half life of 24,000 years. That's the reason eyebrows were raised in Europe — where more countries depend on nuclear energy than anywhere else — when physicist Gérard Mourou mentioned in his wide-ranging Nobel acceptance speech that lasers could cut the lifespan of nuclear waste from "a million years to 30 minutes"
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jan 27, 2020 17:27:56 GMT
It would be interesting to find out how they produce such a short pulse of light.
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Post by yggdrasil on Jan 28, 2020 9:44:28 GMT
It would be interesting to find out how they produce such a short pulse of light. pretty quick, isn't it.
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