{"id":68,"date":"2007-03-25T14:27:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T21:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2016-10-21T01:00:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T08:00:37","slug":"israeli-technology-turns-radioactive-waste-into-energy-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/israeli-technology-turns-radioactive-waste-into-energy-glass","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Technology Turns Radioactive Waste Into Energy, Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite bringing us \u201cpollution free\u201d power, one of the unfortunate side effects from the nuclear age is radioactive waste. This deadly byproduct has the power of not only destroying the land around it in our present age, but for thousands of years into the future.<\/p>\n<p>Although there have been various discussions on how to \u201cdeal\u201d with this deadly waste product, it seems that some Israeli scientists have found an ingenious way of not only removing it but providing an incentive along the way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.israel21c.org\/bin\/en.jsp?enDispWho=Articles%5El1586&amp;enPage=BlankPage&amp;enDisplay=view&amp;enDispWhat=object&amp;enVersion=0&amp;enZone=Technology&amp;\">Israel 21st Century<\/a>) \u201cIt also makes a good recyclable material for building and paving roads,\u201d he assures them. Earlier, Shrem told ISRAEL21c that EER can take low-radioactive, medical and municipal solid waste and produce from it clean energy that \u201ccan be used for just about anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Using a system called plasma gasification melting technology (PGM) developed by scientists from Russia\u2019s Kurchatov Institute research center, the Radon Institute in Russia, and Israel\u2019s Technion Institute \u2014 EER combines high temperatures and low-radioactive energy to transform waste.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe go up to 7,000 degrees centigrade and end at 1,400 centigrade,\u201d says Moshe Stern, founder and president of the Ramat Gan-based company.<\/p>\n<p>Shrem adds that EER\u2019s waste disposal rector does not harm the environment and leaves no surface water, groundwater, or soil pollution in its wake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What makes this technology really impressive is the cost factor compared to the current methods of dealing with nuclear waste. In order to keep citizens out of harms way, governments were forced to bury this material at a price tag of $30,000 a ton.<\/p>\n<p>Moshe Stern\u2019s technology on the other hand can permanently remove this deadly byproduct for about $3,000 a ton! Already countries like Ukraine seem very interested in using this technology to dispose of their wastes, and hopefully Stern\u2019s invention will be used by other nations as well (as the less of a mess we can leave the future generation, the better off we will be).<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isragood.com\/2007\/03\/turning-radioactive-waste-into-energy.html\">IsraGood<\/a> and republished here for your enjoyment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite bringing us \u201cpollution free\u201d power, one of the unfortunate side effects from the nuclear age is radioactive waste. This deadly byproduct has the power of not only destroying the land around it in our present age, but for thousands of years into the future. Although there have been various discussions on how to \u201cdeal\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31285,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/31285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}