Assertion: nuclear reactor's potential | /r/CapableOf | reduce its half-life
Facets:
value: to a few years
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: But the idea was boosted in December 2018 by French Nobel prize–winning physicist Gérard Mourou, who, in his acceptance lecture, said laser beams millions of times brighter than the surface of the sun in bursts that last a millionth of a billionth of a second had the potential to neutralise nuclear waste, reducing its half-life to a few years and its radioactivity to very little.