Synthetic Compound Traps Nuclear Waste

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Nuclear waste is awful, luckily thanks to research and persistence it can be disposed of. Further according to “No ‘’Show Stopper’’ at Proposed Nuclear Dump.” “The U.S. government has spent three decades And $6 billion trying to find a permanent home for the radioactive material left over from Nuclear power plants and munitions factories.”(No Show Stopper n.pag) Radioactive waste is a big enough problem to call that cost. But with the advancements in technology in “Seizing Cesium: Synthetic Compound Traps Nuclear Waste.” Katya Poltorak, explains a new compound that captures cesium- 137 a highly radioactive element. “The substance works like a venus flytrap plant: Cesium ion gets lured into its structure, only to trigger a reaction that causes

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