• Question: will your work protect/involve the enviroment in any way?

    Asked by becky25 to Donna, Jo, Mark, Stuart, timcraggs on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Donna MacCallum

      Donna MacCallum answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      My work should help protect people – not the environment, sorry!

    • Photo: Joanna Buckley

      Joanna Buckley answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Hiya Becky!

      I work with silver, which is toxic in large quantities. Thankfully I only ever work with tiny amounts so both us and the environment are safe. Phew! 🙂

    • Photo: Mark Lancaster

      Mark Lancaster answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Potentially – I’d like to see the research we are doing on new types of particle accelerators to be used to get rid of harmful nuclear waste which will be good for the environment (since the waste is potentially dangerous for millions of years) and also to use the accelerators to get safe nuclear power from thorium – this doesn’t produce any significant C02 (nor plutonium that can be used in bombs) and so would also be good for the environment….

    • Photo: Tim Craggs

      Tim Craggs answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      My work doesn’t have any direct effect on the environment. But it will effect lots of people by helping to understand some diseases like cancer better. All researchers have to be aware of the effect our experiments have on the environment though, by being very careful with how we dispose of chemicals, or bacteria and things like this. But we do this in such a way that the environment is in no way damaged.

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