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Scientists report a new use for the waste product of nuclear power generation
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Scientists report a new use for the waste product of nuclear power generation

Scientists have discovered a new use for the waste product of nuclear power—changing an unused and stockpile into a flexible compound that could be used to make important commodity chemicals as well as new energy sources. Drained uranium (DU) is a radioactive by-product of the procedure used to make nuclear energy. With many dreading the health dangers from DU, it is either stored in costly facilities or used to produce controversial armor-piercing missiles. Be that as it may, in a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Professor Geoff Cloke, Professor Richard Layfield, and Dr. Nikolaos Tsoureas, all at the University of Sussex, have uncovered that DU could, truth be told, be more valuable than we may think. By using a catalyst which contains exhausted...