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
"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?
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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Yes, I told you before. They still haven't worked out how to dispose of nuclear waste.
Still grasping at straws.
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
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.
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.
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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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