How To Use Up Nuclear Waste Generating Electricity

CleanTechnica
By George HarveyFeb 24, 2026, 7:30 pm102 pts
Sometime around 1989 or the early 1990s, Carlo Rubbia, the Director-General of CERN, put together a special working group with instructions to design a way to generate electricity using radioactive materials that would be different from anything that had come before. The method had to do its work without…

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