Friday, June 8, 2012

MIT Kids Think They've Solved How To Get Rid Of Nuclear Waste

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The House voted yesterday to restore funding to Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility, the latest chapter in the decades-long debate over how to dispose of used fuel rods.

But a couple of grad students at MIT, along with a third MIT alum-turned VC, may have a viable solution to getting rid of nuclear waste.

Last fall, Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie unveiled their vision, called the Waste-Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor, at a TED-sponsored talk.

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