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Published online 5 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021202-6
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Archaeologists advise on nuclear waste disposal
Ancient glass gives clues to the future of buried radioactive material.
Glass artefacts made in Iraq more than 4,000 years ago might help scientists to evaluate the risks of storing nuclear waste, researchers told the Materials Research Society meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, this week.
Ancient glasses that have spent thousands of years buried in the earth can hint at how the modern packaging might fare over the many thousands of years it will take for nuclear waste to decay to safe levels of radioactivity.
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