Chow Down Da Radioactive Gasses XP

Radiation, radiation, radiation and radiation..... This is what people would think of when the sensitive words like nuclear and uranium are being spoke of. As we all know, spent nuclear fuel is radioactive.... they too emit radioactive gas that would be easily spread to the surroundings if not contained properly.....


But hei.... good news have arrived.... Apparently, a group of researchers have found something that would be able to capture and remove volatile radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel. This idea would be achieved by using MOF.... not to be mistaken for Ministry of Food but metal-organic frameworks.


MOFs are crystalline, porous materials in which a metal center is bound to organic molecules by mid self-assembly chemical synthesis. Since iodine has half-life of 16 million years and would be created from spent nuclear fuels, MOF would be used to help seperate one molecule of iodine from a stream of molecules. Then the MOF and pore-trapped iodine gas can then be placed into a glass waste for long-term storage.


Well..... Lets hope that there would be more to come in order to make the use of nuclear fuel in our society to be an even more safe resource for the benefit of mankind ^^


Below is a picture of a lady holding some of the samples of MOFs