In Belgium a decision has been postponed for 10 years to enable an underground laboratory to continue investigating how clay reacts to heat released by the storage canisters.
Rosen says tests using laboratory mice suggest the heat treatments may be an effective way of augmenting radiation or chemotherapy for patients with some kinds of tumors, including breast cancer.
In the developing the oxidative dehydrogenation of butene process, it is found that the effect of heat feedback through reactor wall is different between laboratory and commercial scale reactors.