Researchers crack 50-year-old nuclear waste problem, make storage safer
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 17:22
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have adapted a technology developed for solar energy in order to selectively remove one of the trickiest and most-difficult-to-remove elements in nuclear waste pools across the country, making the storage of nuclear waste safer and nontoxic—and solving a decades-old problem.