The machinery stops, and the final product sits on a steel conveyor: a hard, dense, black pancake of Synroc.Invented in 1978 by Ted Ringwood, a professor at Australian National University, ...

Synroc came second behind borosilicate glass in this assessment. Synroc Production. There was a recognition of improved aqueous durability of the Synroc, but it lost out through lack of engineering ...

Synroc edges ahead. Published 5 April 2006. From Pauline Newman . Your correspondent Rosemary Campbell asks what happened to Synroc, the Australian project for sealing radioactive waste (25 March ...

The Synroc, or synthetic rock process, was invented by the late Australian nuclear physicist Ted Ringwood in 1978. This month, after years of low budget and low key refinement, it won a multimillion ...

Synroc is moving to realise its design concept into a fully functional process plant that will treat intermediate-level waste from the Ansto Nuclear Medicine project." In the Synroc process, the ...

Are reports of a mineral that can get rid of radioactive waste accurate? Not likely, writes Eric Hundman, in a special post for DANGER ROOM: Russia Today has reported that Russian scientists ...

ANSTO says there is growing international interest in the Synroc technology. "Along with the benefits of a nuclear medicine production comes a responsibility to safely manage the by-product ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. The synthetic material designed in Australia to lock up nuclear waste has a rocky past, but overseas trials point to a promising ...

The Synroc Process flowsheet for intermediate liquid level waste treatment. Image Credit: Harper International. Discussion. Harper International was commissioned to plan, devise, and test performance ...

An Australian government-developed nuclear technology once seen as a white elephant has made its first big breakthrough in the $4 billion international nuclear waste disposal market. The Synroc ...

But after a few disappointments, Synroc is now alive and well and a plant to use the technology is in the final fit-out stage at ANSTO's Lucas Heights site. This plant, named SyMo, is expected to ...

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