Final Yucca Mountain supplemental Environmental Impact Statement issued
03 Oct 2016
Thirteen years after the EIS was first issued, and seven after the Yucca mountain project was formally ...
A team at Osaka University has co-developed a method to produce low alkaline cement, a material that greatly improves the long-term performance of grout-based radioactive waste disposal solutions by avoiding reactivity problems with groundwater, which can lead to the deterioration of clay and bedrock. This method involves using low-cost silica dioxide extracted from rice chaff as an additive in cement, and is of potentially global utility.