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Glass and ceramics to be made from radioactive waste?

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A research team at Rutgers University in the USA has found a way to recycle nuclear waste by immobilising radioactive iodine-129 in 'chemically durable' glass and ceramics at room temperature.

The half-life of iodine is more than 15 million years and it can disperse rapidly in air and water, inflicting significant damage on the environment, humans and animals.

'What we're talking about here is highly complex, multi-component radioactive waste which contains almost everything in the periodic table,' says Ashutosh Goel, who is responsible for the breakthrough.

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