Glass from the past informs decisions for the future
Friday, March 16, 2012 - 08:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A new investment at the Department of Energys EMSL is now being used in an international effort to study 1,800-year-old pieces of glass from a Roman shipwreck and ruin. The primary goal of the research is not archaeological; scientists are looking thousands of years into the future to assess the safe disposal of radioactive waste in glass.