Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste from a million years to 30 minutes
<i>uranium 235 and plutonium 239, have a half life of 24,000 years</i><p>- U235 has a half life of 700,000,000 years.<p><i>If he gets pulses 10,000 times faster, he says he can modify waste on an atomic level.</i><p>The article says nothing about how he hopes to gain 4 orders of magnitude. Is there some kind of Moore&#x27;s law in the &quot;speed&quot; of these pulses?<p>I wasted my time reading this article, it explains nothing.