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The giant new particle collider at Europe's centre for nuclear research, which is due to start work on Wednesday, is being linked to spectacular spin-offs including improved cancer treatments, systems for destroying nuclear waste and insights into climate change.
Large Hadron Collider could help fight cancer
Seeded on Sun Sep 7, 2008 9:42 PM EDT
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Cern's physicists found that firing a beam of protons (a type of sub-atomic particle) into blocks of lead could generate a shower of neutrons (another sub-atomic particle) – and that these could then be used to break down radioactive waste into harmless stable elements.
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#1 - Sun Sep 7, 2008 9:45 PM EDTImagine no more nuclear waste. I've always discounted the absolute anti-nuclear power arguments because I've always believed we'll one day figure out the waste conundrum.
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#2 - Sun Sep 7, 2008 10:37 PM EDTI'm also in favor of nuclear energy but only and only if the waste are treated in a satisfactory way, the wastes needn't be stored they should be treated in the reactor facility itself so that chances of nuclear pollution could be minimized.
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Self-containment is definitely good, as opposed to transporting it, etc. Perhaps the next new generation plant.
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