Can radioactive waste be immobilized in glass for millions of years?

Posted by on November 3, 2016 12:12 pm
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How do you handle nuclear waste that will be radioactive for millions of years, keeping it from harming people and the environment? It isn’t easy, but a researcher has discovered ways to immobilize such waste – the offshoot of decades of nuclear weapons production – in glass and ceramics.

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