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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Lasers Defuse Nuclear Waste

Lasers Defuse Nuclear Waste
2003-08-20
It sounds like magic: long-lived radioactive waste made harmless by a laser beam. Now, for the first time scientists have managed to pull it off, transmuting iodine-129, one of the bad boys of nuclear waste, into the much more benign isotope iodine-128.

http://news.sciencemag.org/2003/08/lasers-defuse-nuclear-waste

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