Can a criticality be used to reduce the half life of nuclear waste?

Subject: Can a criticality be used to reduce the half life of nuclear waste?

Date: Tue May 9 18:37:55 2000
Posted by John bacchus
Grade level: teacher/prof School: Palmdale High School
City: Palmdale State/Province: Ca Country: USA
Area of science: Physics
ID: 957911875.Ph

Message:


Some forms of nuclear waste seem to last many thousands of years. I 
thought a criticality could be used to transmute the waste into safer 
elements.

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