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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Material cleans water of nuclear wast

Material cleans water of nuclear wast

Houston (UPI) Jan 8, 2013
Graphene oxide can quickly remove radioactive material from contaminated water, U.S. and Russian researchers say they've discovered. Rice University chemist James Tour and Stepan Kalmykov of Lomonosov Moscow State University have found that microscopic, atom-thick flakes of graphene oxide can bind quickly to natural and human-made radionuclides and condense them into solids for easy remhttp://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/Material_cleans_water_of_nuclear_waste_999.html

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