New Material Can Find a Needle in a Nuclear Waste Haystack

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Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis (left) and postdoctoral fellow Manolis Manos have developed a new material a layered metal sulfide that could help clean up liquid nuclear waste. (Credit: Jim Ziv)
Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis (left) and postdoctoral fellow Manolis Manos have developed a new material — a layered metal sulfide — that could help clean up liquid nuclear waste. (Credit: Jim Ziv)

Nuclear power has advantages, but, if this method of making power is to be viable long term, discovering new solutions to radioactive waste disposal and other problems are critical. Otherwise nuclear power is unlikely to become mainstream.


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