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IAEA looks at nuclear techniques for crop resilience
The International Atomic Energy Agency has launched a five-year coordinated research project (CRP) to strengthen plant health preparedness using nuclear and related technologies.
Wheat blast, potato late blight, potato bacterial wilt, and cassava witches broom disease can spread quickly across large areas of land, leading to severe yield losses in key crops for food security. Global trade and climate change have increased the likelihood of rapid, transboundary spread.
Werner Faubel, Sameh A. Ali
Nuclear Technology | Volume 86 | Number 1 | July 1989 | Pages 60-65
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34282
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The technical feasibility of partitioning concentrated nitric acid intermediate-level waste (ILWC) solutions from the Purex process into a small volume of high-level waste and a large volume of low-level waste using sorption methods is demonstrated for 1-ℓ batches. Cesium-134 and 137Cs are selectively separated with a decontamination factor (DF) greater than 1 × 105 in a newly developed “suspended-bed” column filled with the microporous inorganic exchanger ammonium molybdophosphate. The 125Sb and the actinides and lanthanides with a 3+ valence state are retained with DFs between 40 and 1000 on metal oxides of antimony and manganese and on an extraction column containing n-octyl(phenyl) N,N-diisobutyl carbamoyl methyl phosphine oxide, respectively. Ruthenium-106 and 60Co are removed in a column loaded with dimethyl glyoxime and have DFs greater than 20. The amount of secondary wastes arising from absorber materials is calculated to be 300 kg for a 350 t/yr reprocessing plant with an ILWC volume of ∼0.5 m3/t of heavy metal.