Sentences with phrase «as radioactive waste»

While there are certainly contaminants, such as radioactive waste, that will pose immediate and continuous health risks if left in place, more often than not, contaminants can be safely capped and left onsite.

We can't afford to treat it as radioactive waste.

In addition to not needing to refuel between flights, a nuclear - powered airplane in theory would not pollute the environment as long as the radioactive waste from its reactor could be contained (the Air Force's project never progressed far enough to come up with a practical way to address this).

Not exact matches

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.

Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»

As a matter of regular operation, radiation is released from Indian Point in the form of liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive wastes.

The state lawmaker said among her concerns are education and job creation, as well as cleaning up radioactive waste in the St. Louis region.

Higgins is also urging the US Department of Energy to conduct a full Environmental Impact study as a spill of any portion of the 6,000 gallons of liquid radioactive waste could pose threats to the Niagara River and the Great Lakes.

Long - time problems associated with HHF such as major spills including from pipelines or what to do with radioactive and toxic waste water from a fracked well have not been rectified.

Intrinsic colloids are formed when radioactive waste mixes with other dissolved components in the groundwater, such as bicarbonate.

As reported in October in the online version of the journal Psychological Science, when the radioactive waste was being stored in neighboring Nevada, residents of Salt Lake City perceived much greater risk of contamination if the border was a light, dotted line.

The amendment did exclude those research and technology programs administered by the National Nuclear Security Administration and the nondefense Office of Nuclear Energy, as well as other DOE activities related to radioactive waste cleanup.

The issue concerns what to do with radioactive waste after uranium and plutonium have been recovered from spent nuclear fuel using reprocessing methods such as Plutonium Uranium Redox EXtraction (PUREX).

This type of waste often consists of items such as used protective clothing, which is only slightly contaminated but still dangerous in case of radioactive contamination of a human body through ingestion, inhalation, absorption, or injection.

As the U.S. makes new plans for disposing of spent nuclear fuel and other high - level radioactive waste deep underground, geologists are key to identifying safe burial sites and techniques.

But because the waste has to be constantly stirred to prevent settling of the noxious and radioactive solids, the plan calls for pulse jet mixers — described as «turkey basters» — to keep the solids suspended.

The scientists stressed the need for more study of the conditions at the bottom of the ice sheet because of a proposal published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1973 to use the ice sheet as a dumping ground for radioactive waste.

If the ice melts, the camp's infrastructure, as well as any remaining biological, chemical and radioactive waste, could re-enter the environment and potentially disrupt nearby ecosystems, say the study's authors.

For ores that contain even less concentrated uranium — McArthur River is the most concentrated active mine — the proportion of waste in radium and other radioactive elements (as well as toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury) is even higher — and McArthur River's uranium is much less concentrated than the mines of the past like nearby Rabbit Lake or Shinkolobwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.

As a result, radioactive waste has seeped into the ground.

When the «green» argument was still struggling for respectability, established scientists used to assert confidently that practices such as dumping waste in the sea or allowing radioactive emissions were «safe».

The fascinating biological processes that they use to support life under such extreme conditions are being studied by the Manchester group, as well as the stabilizing effects of these humble bacteria on radioactive waste.

One such product linked to these activities, isosaccharinic acid (ISA), causes much concern as it can react with a wide range of radionuclides — unstable and toxic elements that are formed during the production of nuclear power and make up the radioactive component of nuclear waste.

Norway and Sweden are worried about the threat posed by radioactive leaks from sunken nuclear - powered submarines and nuclear waste off the Kola Peninsula, as well as the safety of the nuclear plants there.

By BRIAN WYNNE and SUE MAYER When the «green» argument was still struggling for respectability, established scientists used to assert confidently that practices such as dumping waste in the sea or allowing radioactive emissions were «safe».

In October 2009 the government of Italy announced that a wreck discovered off the southwestern tip of the country is the Catania, a passenger vessel sunk during World War I — and not the Cunski, a cargo ship loaded with radioactive waste, as alleged by district authorities from nearby Calabria.

Billions of dollars have been spent to evaluate Yucca Mountain as disposal site for radioactive waste since the 1970s.

Federal agencies such as the U.S. EPA, NASA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Department of Transportation have successfully used similar expert elicitation in support of risk analysis and decision - making on issues ranging from food safety to radioactive waste management.

But critics question the safety of nuclear power, citing such concerns as the potential for catastrophic meltdowns, their potential vulnerability to terrorists, the lack of workable evacuation plans in the event of accidents as well as the problem of dealing with radioactive waste.

The laser process also could decontaminate radioactive, mixed waste or solid hazards, such as mercury, lead, arsenic, beryllium or uranium, on concrete or painted surfaces.

RICHLAND, Wash. — A federal project director from the U.S. Department of Energy will discuss how the Hanford waste treatment plant will immobilize radioactive waste by turning it into glass as part of a continuing lecture series from 3 - 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, in the Washington State University Tri-Cities East Auditorium.

With his colleagues at PNNL, he pioneered the application of inductively coupled plasma / mass spectrometry as a powerful and relevant radioanalytical tool and demonstrated its use for radioactive waste characterization, ultra-trace nuclear forensics use and other applications.

During the next two years, as Nevada challenges or confronts DOE, Congress, and, perhaps, the NRC concerning various aspects of the Yucca Mountain program, it will be equally important to undertake efforts to assure that the issue of radioactive waste shipments, including the routes such shipments will use and the cities and communities that will be impacted, is given wide exposure nationally.

Ken Czerwinski (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has accepted an invitation from the director of the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to serve as an expert on a study mandated by Congress on the treatment of low - level radioactive waste at the Hanford site in Washington state...

The boiling kills all bacteria, virus, parasite, and pathogens, and as the steam rises, it leaves behind waste material, useless and harmful inorganic minerals such as calcium, oestradiol, heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, organic and inorganic chemicals, radioactive chemicals and other heavier contaminants.

Gaston has more than fifteen years of experience in participative and transdisciplinary research on governance related to issues such as sustainable development, energy, climate change and radioactive waste management and with working in and around the assemblies of the policy processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty process (UN-NPT) and of the research - related activities of the European Commission.

How to reduce nuclear wastes or how to treat them including the debris from TEPCO's Fukushima nuclear power stations is discussed; and 3) Environmental radioactivity, radioactive waste treatment and geological disposal policy.State - of - the - art technologies for overall back - end issues of the nuclear fuel cycle as well as the technologies of transmutation are presented here.

A family whose home has high levels is exposed to 35x more radiation as the NRC would allow if that family were standing next to a radioactive waste site

These externalities include air pollution and radioactive waste disposal as well as CO2 emissions.

If you store radioactive waste in a safe place not so dense as to meltdown but dense enough to build up heat, you'll get a geothermal resource.

The hair on the back of my neck goes up when I read, as I did on this blog, an innocent question such as «Why can't we inject radioactive waste into the Earth's magma?»

The residue from recycling is some really long lasting radioactive material that could be described as waste — at least until someone develops a use for it — but it is greatly reduced in bulk, reducing one of the factors you have to consider.

U.S. wind farms benefit wildlife by helping to keep our environment clean, as wind energy emits no air or water pollution, requires no fuel, uses no water in the production of power, and creates no hazardous or radioactive waste.

He contrasted the advantages of renewables over nuclear power plants as their ease of decommissioning: there is no long - lived radioactive waste to deal with, and upgrading, for example, offshore wind turbines, is cost - effective because the foundations and infrastructure are already built.

But it offers no viable solutions to the raft of problems plaguing nuclear power, such as the erosion of public trust in this energy source in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, difficulties over the disposal of radioactive waste and the problem - plagued nuclear fuel recycling program.

Other environmental concerns relate to the radioactive contamination of the Arctic Ocean from, for example, Russian radioactive waste dump sites in the Kara Sea [42] and Cold War nuclear test sites such as Novaya Zemlya.

How often have you heard phrases such as «clean coal,» «safe nuclear power,» «clean diesel,» or «low - level radioactive waste»?

When it came to stopping the dumping of radioactive waste in the world's oceans (led by UK and not participated in by the US), it was Greenpeace and the Seamen's Unions (in response to their activism) that stopped the dumping — I was then a scientist / legal activist advising NGOs such as Greenpeace, AND when the governments eventually got the message that they had to clean up their act, I helped the UN create better protection of the marine environment.

«Nuclear waste remains radioactive for thousands of years and the nuclear industry has not come up with a technological process to deal with this highly toxic waste and similarly as toxic chemical industry dump their waste in the ground, so does the nuclear industry.

Time is an issue as well because the waste remains radioactive for thousands of years.