New nuclear cement

Report of a "new" cement that will help in storing nuclear waste 50% better than previously proposed barrier solutions. Wonderful!

Long-term cement study seeks nuclear waste solution

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"Their optimum cement - known currently simply as No7 - contains blast-furnace slag." So how much blast-furnace slag does the UK's seriously failing steel industry produce now, or in the future?

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polygonum
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Point taken, although I imagine the Far East, China & India, has plenty of it, and one ship-load would allow a whole lot of waste to be contained and immobilised.

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Chris Hogg

Yes, I told you before. They still haven't worked out how to dispose of nuclear waste.

Still grasping at straws.

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harry

We can buy it in from China surely?

I was intrigued to hear that modern signage about danger radiation can fail in just a few years, yet cave paintings have lasted thousands. Could we not harness the cave man technology for our signage? Brian

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Brian Gaff

Not really. They lasted thousands of years hidden away from the proles.

Less than a century, and most have suffered terribly from humidity in exhaled breath. Most are either restricted, or behind perspex.

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Jethro_uk

It doesn't say it has to be fresh slag. There must be hundreds of thousands of tons of it lying around. In Sheffield, where I was born, I saw them simply tipping it down the hillside.

Another dave

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Another Dave

In South Wales, old slag tips were excavated and it was used for base/aggregate for roads. It's all been used up now. I had quite a bit myself. Cheaper than scalpings etc.

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harry

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