Chemical Treatment to Render Uranium Insoluble In Water

[jordan179]

Things like this are part of why I think the requirement for 10 thousand year containment of the materials at nuclear waste sites is a silly one

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[warriorinside]

though it does rely on the molecule's shape to some extent.

So does protein folding. No bad thing there.

[anonymous]

But this is Heresy and Apostaty towards Mother Gaia...

[bojojoti]

Interesting link.

[digoraccoon]

Science can be such a good thing at times. This is one such moment. :)

[jordan179]

My point is that the pessimists are basically arguing that we have to plan for the possibility of millennia passing without any technologies enabling us to easily clean up leaks. But in fact, we've only been facing the problem for some 50 years now, and we already have one of the first such technologies. Is there really much doubt that, by the 22nd or 23rd centuries, cleaning up such waste dumps will be a fairly trivial engineering operation?