nuclear waste disposal

Geek that I am, one day I was idly looking at the chart of the nuclides, a “periodic table” of atomic isotopes, when I noticed that a lighter form of uranium, U-233, is just as capable of undergoing nuclear fission as U-235, the isotope norm

To fuel society, we need both a constant source of power for our baseline needs and a source of extra when demand rises.

About six or seven billion years ago, a massive star exploded, and its debris, containing (among other things) traces of gold, mercury, lead, and uranium, slammed into a cloud of gas and dust floating on the outskirts of the galaxy.

As a consultant, I oversaw the generation of tens of thousands of cubic feet of additional radioactive waste in a few environmental remediation projects.