RECYCLING NUCLEAR WASTE

Now there will be something productive to do with what is left Iran's nuclear program after the Israelis hit it.

Israeli discovery converts dangerous radioactive waste into clean energy
Karin Kloosterman, March 18, 2007 (Israel 21c)

WHO
With the help of Russian scientists, Israeli firm Environmental Energy Resources…

WHAT
A reactor that converts radioactive, hazardous and municipal waste into inert byproducts such as glass and clean energy…

WHEN
EER was founded in 2000 and has maintained a low profile until revealing its reactor last week…

WHERE
With a strict eye over its operations by Israel's Ministry of Environmental Protection, EER revealed its proof-of-concept to Israeli and foreign dignitaries in Aeblin, near Karmiel last week, showing how it can take mountains of municipal waste and reduce it to a pile of black rubble.

WHY
The problem of radioactive waste is a global one, and getting increasingly worse. All countries in the industrialized world are waking up to the need for safer hazardous waste disposal methods…In the US alone, Research Studies predicts that this year's market for radioactive waste-management technologies in America will cap $5.5 billion…

QUOTES
- "We spent our time on R&D and building up the site in Israel which we started constructing in 2003. We realized that nobody was going to believe us unless we started doing the process physically. They always said it sounded too good to be true, so we had to prove it to them," said [Itschak Shrem, chairman of investment company Shrem, Fudim and Keiner representing EER]...
- "We are not burning. This is the key word," Shrem said. "When you burn you produce dioxin. Instead, we vacuum out the oxygen to prevent combustion…EER produces energy - 70% of which goes back to power the reactor with a 30% excess which can be sold…”
- EER is certainly giving a fresh meaning to the expression - one man's garbage is another man's treasure. But in EER's case, ones man's hazardous waste may very well be EER's goldmine.