Nuclear energy: Between global electricity demand, worldwide decarbonisation imperativeness, and planetary environmental implications

Nonporous amorphous superadsorbents for highly effective and selective adsorption of iodine in water

“…Radioactive nuclides are a double-edged sword because when they provide us with clean nuclear energy without green-house gas emissions, they produce problematic nuclear wastes that pose a great threat to the environment and humans [1][2][3] . As the products of plutonium-239 and uranium-235 fission in the nuclear plant, 129 I and 131 I are considered as the two most harmful nuclides since the former has ultra-long half-life (~1.6 × 10 7 years), toxicity, and high mobility in most geological environments while the latter, notwithstanding a shorter half-life span (~8 days), interferes with human metabolic processes due to strong radiation 4,5 .…”