Lasers Defuse Nuclear Waste

Lasers Defuse Nuclear Waste

2003-08-20

It sounds like magic: long-lived radioactive waste made harmless by a laser beam. Now, for the first time scientists have managed to pull it off, transmuting iodine-129, one of the bad boys of nuclear waste, into the much more benign isotope iodine-128.

http://news.sciencemag.org/2003/08/lasers-defuse-nuclear-waste