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US Particle Accelerators Turn Nuclear Waste Into Electricity, Cut Radioactive Life By 99.7%


Researchers at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are advancing Accelerator-Driven Systems (ADS) that use high-energy proton beams to transmute long-lived nuclear waste into shorter-lived isotopes. "The process also generates significant heat, which can be harnessed to produce additi...

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