zero waste

We have 50k tons of nuclear waste spread out over 100 sites in the USA. The radioactive waste will remain radioactive for the next 10,000 years. Yucca Mountain will not be ready until 2017 and will be overflowing by then. Argonne Labs are working on a process to recycle those spent fuel rods and reduce the waste by 90%. Using a scrubber and different washes they can separate some of the contaminants from the spent fuel rods and recycle them. diapers in a landfill take 500 years to decompos but can be decomposed in 5 secinds in a plasma chamber. The process makes a synfuel gas that is further refined and used to generate power. the byproducts can be sold on the open market for roads, jewelry, and other products. Instead of paying $90 a ton to pick up garbage in New York, New York could make $15 a ton by using this process on its garbage. PLASCO Company is still testing this technology but it only results in 2.2 pounds of heavy metal waste per ton.