Image via Pixabay/Tag Hartman-Simkins Nuclear Waste Nuclear power can provide inexpensive electricity with little in the way of emissions, but there’s a catch: it produces horrifying radioactive waste that can remain deadly for thousands of years. Enter Gerard Mourou, the Nobel Prize-winning subject of a fascinating new Bloomberg profile . He says that high-intensity lasers could one day render nuclear waste harmless in just a few minutes — a concept which, if realized, could make nuclear power a vastly more appealing energy option . Laser Future Mourou is the first to admit that his work, which would use powerful lasers to break down radioactive waste into less harmful material at the atomic level, could be decades off. “Nuclear energy is maybe the best candidate for the future, but we are still left with a lot of dangerous junk,” he said during his Nobel Lecture in December. “The idea is to transmute this nuclear waste into new forms of atoms which don’t have the problem of radioactivity.”
Nobel Prize Winner: Lasers Could Permanently Destroy Nuclear Waste

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