Sentences with phrase «as nuclear waste storage»

«The sensing skin could be used for a wide range of structures, but the impetus for the work was to help ensure the integrity of critical infrastructure such as nuclear waste storage facilities,» says Dr. Mohammad Pour - Ghaz, an assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the work.

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There has been a stagnation in the building of nuclear power stations in Europe as fears concerning safety have mounted, especially in the wake of the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, and the problem of the disposal and storage of radioactive waste materials has not been solved.

As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage.

The Obama administration's budget cuts funding for oil research and the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository as it increases money to renewables, carbon capture and storage

In the aftermath of Yucca's mothballing, the DOE has pursued a diverse strategy of nuclear waste management that includes tentative plans for consolidated interim storage facilities, tests of deep boreholes as another possible long - term storage technique, and the development of «consent - based» siting protocols to gain support from municipal and state governments.

The telegram seems to substantiate charges that politicians in the government of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl pressured scientists to recommend an old salt mine as a potential site for long - term nuclear waste storage.

Aluminum is currently used in not only research reactor components but also nuclear batteries and spacecraft, and it has been proposed as material for storage containers for nuclear waste.

Republican leaders in the U.S. House support legislation to nominate Yucca Mountain as the storage and disposal location for high level waste and spent nuclear fuel.

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, which Feinstein chairs and Alexander serves as the top Republican, may again include a mandate for DOE to designate a high level waste / spent nuclear fuel storage site, as they did in the 2012 bill that the last Congress did not pass.

For this series, the artist photographed a wide range of subjects such as nuclear waste encapsulation and storage facilities to a recreational site for death row prisoners.

New research and innovation will help the industry to overcome the well known drawbacks to nuclear power, such as the transport and storage of waste.

In discussing the issue of nuclear waste, the authors of the letter point to geological storage and the Blue Ribbon Commission's recommended path toward interim and final storage as the solution, but there is currently no movement forward on this front.

(Associated Press) • Nuclear waste from power plants around the country could be headed to West Texas for temporary storage as a result of a bill passed by the House on Thursday.

The processes involved in building and managing nuclear power — such as mining, uranium enrichment and waste storage — are all very energy intensive.

Holtec sees the passage of H.R. 3050 as a good step towards interim and long - term solutions for nuclear waste storage.

Even then, all they will achieve is putting as much of the nuclear waste genie as possible back into temporary storage — like before — because we have no real life working solution for it.

If Yucca Mountain doesn't come to fruition and another geologic repository isn't developed, storing SNF in dry storage systems as they are currently (Figure 5) may be the nation's only recourse — other than hoping that a hard reality will serve to break the impasse on nuclear waste.

The groups are particularly concerned that large - scale bioenergy and biofuels, waste incineration, nuclear power and carbon capture and storage (CCS) are referred to as «low carbon» in mitigation models, despite concerns raised elsewhere that some of those technologies are risky, unproven and could actually make climate change worse.

Much tougher nuclear power plant waste storage and disposal, plant decommissioning, and security standards (and, because of the security and waste disposal problems, zero net increase in nuclear usage — which puts Monbiot at odds with a large new group of pro-nuke environmentalists such as James Lovelock)