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A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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Publish date: February 27, 2014
Written by: Joanna Ciesielska
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In other words, when exposing to flue gas the material will allow other chemicals such as nitrogen or methane to flow through while capturing the CO2. The scientists have nano-engineered the porous organic polymer, which comprises minute particles that are each 500 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair follicle. Every one of these particles consists of nanometer wide pores which can capture and store CO2 molecules while allowing other molecules to pass by.
Porous organic polymers of the type developed by the VUC team are a promising CO2 capture technology. The team is already considering the next research step, which could see light being used as a trigger to release the CO2 captured by the polymer. Following light exposure the polymer’s structure would shift so that the CO2 molecules can be squeezed out of the nano-pores, thereby providing a method to separate CO2 to be stored and that to be used, for instance for enhanced oil recovery (EOR).
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has told the United Nations atomic energy watchdog that Russia plans to restart Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, currently occupied by Russian troops and technicians, fueling worries about a serious nuclear accident on the front lines of a grinding military conflict.
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Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.