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Science 15 December 1995:
Vol. 270. no. 5243, p. 1762
DOI: 10.1126/science.270.5243.1762
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Research News

Robert F. Service

Wherever the United States decides to put its high-level nuclear waste, planners must also decide how to store a particularly worrisome component: plutonium. At the Materials Research Society meeting in Boston 2 weeks ago, researchers presented a new scheme for putting plutonium safely under glass. The formulation, involving alkali metals, has the potential to incorporate up to 10% plutonium by weight, much more than other types of waste glass.




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