Re: E-Link: Major Breakthrough in Hazardous Cleanup Process

["Frank "Free Spirit" Borger" <frank@rover.bsd.uchicago.edu>]

> Date:          Thu, 5 Dec 96 15:58:13 -0600
> Reply-to:      radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> From:          azapantis@mgdestmx01.erin.gov.au
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject:       Re: E-Link: Major Breakthrough in Hazardous Cleanup Process

> I have trouble believing this!!
>>      "Instead of low level radioactive waste having a half life of 300-400
>> years," says John Longo, president of Startech, "plasma remediated nuclear
> >waste will be reduced to a size easily storable at the generating facility
> >and will have a half life of only 100 years.  

	Hmm.  So we run the output thru the process again, and it
	has a half-life of 25 years, and we run it thru again and it's
	6.25 years......

Frank R. Borger - Physicist - Center for Radiation Therapy
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