[ RadSafe ] Plastics and radiation exposure

[Dahlskog, Leif]

You mean along the lines of this...

Turning plastic containers, bottle caps, bags, all plastic waste BACK
into useable oil (where it came from originally), back into gasoline,
kerosene, Check it out:

http://www.flixxy.com/convert-plastic-to-oil.htm

 
Leif Dahlskog
Radiation Health Branch
Department of Health, Western Australia


-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Ted de Castro
Sent: Thursday, 4 November 2010 10:47 AM
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Subject: [ RadSafe ] Plastics and radiation exposure

Here's an off the wall muse .........

What would be the ultimate end product of plastics to GIGA doses (or 
higher) of photon or maybe beta radiation?

ie.  Would it ultimately de-polymerize to something like what it started

from or an otherwise useful product - like maybe a fuel source?

Just a muse.  NOT considering economic viability or any such thing.

Just - what if a non-pc major "pollutant" - ie. rad waste got recycled 
to the close proximity of another problem waste product - plastics -  
might not something useful POSSIBLY arise.

We all can guess at an answer - but I'm suspecting that someone here 
might KNOW the answer.
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