Friday, July 10, 2009

A new way to clean up the fallouts of Chernobyl nuclear disaster

We all know that it is almost impossible to clean the radioactive substance like strontium and cesium when there is a nuclear disaster like Chernobyl nuclear disaster; hence there is no growth of the food crops. But scientists have found a new way to suck up these radioactive substances by growing biofuels. It would take decades to clean up this mess by growing biofuels rather than wasting hundreds of years, thus make the soil fit to grow food again. The biofuels like radioactive sugar beet and other related crops can be grown in the contaminated lands. Nearly 40,000 square kilometer area of south-east Belarus is fully contaminated by these isotopes during the Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster in 1986. No radioactive material will get into the biofuels because ethanol is the only component distilled out. But in distillation heavy volatile substance like radioactive isotopes will be rise up in the stem tubes and it can be burned in power station to produce concentrated ‘radioactive ash’ for further disposal. 

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