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New Material for Nuclear Waste Clean-Up
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
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A team of Northwestern University chemists is the first to focus on metal sulfide materials as a possible source for nuclear waste remediation methods. Their new material is extremely successful in removing strontium from a sodium-heavy solution, which has concentrations similar to those in real liquid nuclear waste. Strontium-90, a major waste component, is one of the more dangerous radioactive fission materials created within a nuclear reactor.    (source: sciencedaily.com)


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