Is there a possible way to neutralize radiation?

Is there a possible way to neutralize radiation?

You mean shielding or what? The answer is likely yes regardless, but that doesn't mean it's easy or even good enough.

I mean if an entire area is heavily radiated, is there a way to get rid of this radiation in a meaningful amount of time? Just shooting ideas out there but spraying liquid nitrogen over everything to try and lower the energy levels of the particles.

Liquid nitrogen wouldn't do anything.

They remove the topsoil when it gets irradiated.

No, not in any meaningful way other than letting decay take care of it

Why not dump it in a vulcano?

You would have to make sure it sinks rather than forms fumes that escapes into the atmosphere. Also an eruption could eject all into the stratosphere where it would stay for a long unpleasant time. Radioactive strontium is such a problem, caused by nuclear tests.

Yes.

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Anti-radiation

wouldn't this be a thing with antimatter

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Just shoot more radiation at it but at a negative frequency so that the waves cancel out.

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Antimatter (and by extent anti-radiaton) would be a horribel way to deal withit because the annihilation would also release a lot of energy. You'd essentially anti-nuke the place. Twice the destruction with none of the radiation

>Is there a possible way to neutralize radiation?

Yes, with a subcritical reactor or (for isotopes that have threshold fission cross sections) a fast-neutron reactor.

The process for a contaminated area would be to dig up the top soil (and however deep you need to go), then incinerate the material with plasma arc pyrolysis. The resulting slag can then be purified, and the radiactive isotopes can be fed into a subcritical/fast-neutron reactor.

Work is being done in making accelerator-driven systems (an accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor) economically and technically feasible. It's probably gonna be the future of nuclear waste management.

Bump, this tread deserves more opinions

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You put the particles back together, and bam, no more radiation.

Do you mean "neutralise radation", or "neutralise radioactive materials"?
The first just requires heavy shielding, the second is vastly harder.

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