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The SAHMRI building and Bragg Centre form part of the medical research precinct on North Terrace, Adelaide CBD
A Canadian lab has run a chemical process on real spent nuclear fuel "and pulled out 90% of the long-lived danger in 24 hours, the part that forces a burial site to last 100,000 years," notes the blog Autonocio, "with the leftovers meant to fuel a reactor."
The standard plan for spent nuclear fuel is to wait it out. You pull the used bundles from a reactor, sit them in a pool of water for seven to ten years while the heat and radiation come down, seal them in concrete casks, and look for somewhere deep and geologically dull to leave them for the next hundred thousand years. Canada has been hunting for that burial site since the 1980s and still doesn't have one in the ground.
A company in Saint John, New Brunswick thinks most of what makes that waste dangerous never needed to go in the ground at all. Moltex Energy Canada says a chemical process it calls WATSS can strip 90% of the long-lived material out of used Canada Deuterium Uranium [CANDU] fuel in 24 hours, and that the concentrated leftovers become fuel for a reactor it wants to build on the same site. The recovery step isn't a slide in a pitch deck anymore. In 2025, World Nuclear News reported that Canadian Nuclear Laboratories ran the process on real used fuel from a commercial Canadian reactor and confirmed the 90% figure.
None of it is generating power yet. What exists is a validated chemical step and a reactor design waiting in line at a regulator. The rest is a 2030s problem.
"The chemistry has a lab result behind it. The reactor does not exist..." the article points out. "Moltex is aiming to have its first WATSS and SSR-W units running at Point Lepreau by the early-to-mid 2030s... Not everyone buys the pitch. Critics have argued the reprocessing creates its own stream of byproducts, that the economics are unproven, and that a single site's stockpile is finite."
But Moltex "isn't alone in trying to burn nuclear waste instead of bury it," the article notes, with Switzerland and Denmark "chasing the same goal a different way."
Switzerland's Transmutex drives a subcritical reactor with a particle accelerator, feeding it spent fuel alongside thorium... Denmark's Copenhagen Atomics is building a thorium molten-salt reactor that fits inside a shipping container and runs on the leftovers from conventional plants.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader kwelch007 for sharing the article.
The standard plan for spent nuclear fuel is to wait it out. You pull the used bundles from a reactor, sit them in a pool of water for seven to ten years while the heat and radiation come down, seal them in concrete casks, and look for somewhere deep and geologically dull to leave them for the next hundred thousand years. Canada has been hunting for that burial site since the 1980s and still doesn't have one in the ground.
A company in Saint John, New Brunswick thinks most of what makes that waste dangerous never needed to go in the ground at all. Moltex Energy Canada says a chemical process it calls WATSS can strip 90% of the long-lived material out of used Canada Deuterium Uranium [CANDU] fuel in 24 hours, and that the concentrated leftovers become fuel for a reactor it wants to build on the same site. The recovery step isn't a slide in a pitch deck anymore. In 2025, World Nuclear News reported that Canadian Nuclear Laboratories ran the process on real used fuel from a commercial Canadian reactor and confirmed the 90% figure.
None of it is generating power yet. What exists is a validated chemical step and a reactor design waiting in line at a regulator. The rest is a 2030s problem.
"The chemistry has a lab result behind it. The reactor does not exist..." the article points out. "Moltex is aiming to have its first WATSS and SSR-W units running at Point Lepreau by the early-to-mid 2030s... Not everyone buys the pitch. Critics have argued the reprocessing creates its own stream of byproducts, that the economics are unproven, and that a single site's stockpile is finite."
But Moltex "isn't alone in trying to burn nuclear waste instead of bury it," the article notes, with Switzerland and Denmark "chasing the same goal a different way."
Switzerland's Transmutex drives a subcritical reactor with a particle accelerator, feeding it spent fuel alongside thorium... Denmark's Copenhagen Atomics is building a thorium molten-salt reactor that fits inside a shipping container and runs on the leftovers from conventional plants.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader kwelch007 for sharing the article.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - De Koninklijke Marechaussee meldt "extra aandacht" te hebben voor de verdachte van de aanslag in Berlijn. Tijdens de Pride reed zaterdag iemand met een busje in op publiek en hij zou daarna ook op mensen hebben ingestoken. Er viel één dode en er raakten 29 mensen gewond.
Niet alleen de eenheden die grenscontroles verrichten, maar alle operationele eenheden zijn extra alert op de verdachte. Die staat ook Europees gesignaleerd. De verdachte, volgens Duitse media een IS-aanhanger, is nog voortvluchtig en de autoriteiten voeren een klopjacht uit om hem te kunnen oppakken. Het gaat om de 21-jarige Abdul B., een Duitse burger en een bekende van justitie.
BERLIJN (ANP) - In Berlijn zijn mensen na de aanslag van zaterdagavond de straat opgegaan om steun te betuigen aan de slachtoffers en de queergemeenschap. Er verzamelde zich volgens media als omroep RBB een menigte op de Pariser Platz, bij de beroemde stadspoort Brandenburger Tor. Het gaat mogelijk om enkele duizenden mensen.
In de hoofdstad viel een dode en raakten tientallen mensen gewond toen iemand met een voertuig inreed op een menigte. Dat leidde tot geschokte reacties. "Woede en saamhorigheid zijn ons grootste wapen. En daar moeten we in deze tijd meer gebruik van maken dan in lange tijd het geval is geweest", verklaarde een spreker op de Pariser Platz volgens de omroep.
Bij de Brandenburger Tor is een minuut stilte gehouden. Later op zondag staan een plechtigheid in een kerk en een rouwmars gepland in de hoofdstad.
Joshua’s lack of punch resistance is clear, which could place him in danger in the highly anticipated £150m fight with Tyson Fury
The bedlam and madness lasted for just five minutes and 43 seconds and, after Anthony Joshua was back in the sanctuary of his dressing room, he claimed to have learned “a valuable lesson.” Joshua had been knocked down twice by Kristian Prenga before he rescued himself in the second round with a brutal stoppage of the previously obscure Albanian.
Joshua also looked ahead to the hugely anticipated fight with Tyson Fury after the two faded former world champions came through wildly contrasting bouts which were meant to be routine exhibitions this weekend. “I’m gonna come back stronger now,” Joshua claimed as he tried to clear the concussive fog from his brain after the worst round of his tumultuous career.
Continue reading...Preliminary study shows older people who avoided food four hours before bed did better in problem solving tests
Confining mealtimes and snacks to a nine-hour window and avoiding food for four hours before bed may help stave off cognitive decline in older age, researchers say.
A pilot study of older women living with overweight or obesity found hints of improvement in mental skills among those who ate within the restricted period compared with those who spread their meals over a longer time.
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My cosmos garden
コスモス園
The hot days continue! The cosmos garden has taken on a summer look.
暑い日が続きますね！コスモス園も夏模様です。
Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka pref, Japan
peaceful-jp-scenery posted a photo:
My cosmos garden
コスモス園
The hot days continue! The cosmos garden has taken on a summer look.
暑い日が続きますね！コスモス園も夏模様です。
Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka pref, Japan