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The company now has 18 people and extensive university
collaborations, several with the University,
such as
applying the technology to drinking water and other
applications for what is a platform technology. There
are now also collaborations with Salford and Lancaster
Universities, and the company has developed sufficiently
to collaborate outside the north west – for example, with
Loughborough and Nottingham Universities.
The major problem with radioactive oils is not the
radiation – the nuclear industry is able to handle these
substances – but rather the oil as traditional cementation
and grouting methods cannot prevent the oils from
leaching. Destroying the oil generates an active water that
can be treated using existing treatment techniques.
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