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Superconducting cavities could help reducing nuclear waste radio-toxicity

| 22 April 2010

Accelerator-driven system cavity prototype embedded in its cryomodule. Image: Perrine Royole-Degieux. The European MYRRHA accelerator reference scheme. Image: Jean-Luc Biarrotte. What do the ILC and environmental protection have in common? The answer is: superconducting cavities. The European MYRRHA is an experimental facility aimed to demonstrate the technical feasibility of nuclear waste transmutation in an accelerator-driven […]