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Particle Accelerators Could Cut Nuclear Waste Danger to Centuries
Original: Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Energy Lasts for 100,000 Years but Particle Accelerators Could Slash That Timeline to a Few Centuries
Scientists are highlighting a proposal to use particle accelerators to transmute long-lived radioactive waste from nuclear energy, potentially reducing its hazardous lifespan from around 100,000 years to just a few centuries. The idea, known as accelerator-driven transmutation, is being discussed as a way to ease one of nuclear power's biggest drawbacks: the need to store spent fuel safely for many millennia.
Why now: Renewed interest in nuclear energy has put the long-term waste storage problem, and possible technical solutions, back in the spotlight.
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