Sentences with phrase «canisterized high level waste»

In 2010, the Obama administration abandoned a 2 - decade effort to bury much of the high level waste — spent fuel rods from commercial reactors and radioactive material from nuclear bomb manufacturing — inside Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert (although Congress has ordered parts of that process to keep moving).

At present, it is limited to transporting canisterized high level waste (used nuclear fuel) only.

For decades, public sentiment, expressed in hearings, protests, public opinion polls, and other means, has strongly opposed spent nuclear fuel and high level waste storage or disposal in New Mexico.

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.

In contrast, DOE high level waste contains more than one billion curies.

Thus, the public health and environmental damage from accidents or leaks could be much greater with high level waste.

Every time a new top U S DOE top manager was rotated through the organization, the lone gommit scientist would schedule a meeting and would go over his concerns with the contractor's plans to processing the high level waste.

Italian scientists Carlo Rubia's work at CERN has shown many years ago the possibility of eliminating High level waste.

The point is that the government hopes that a final site for high level waste will be found and ready by 2040, but it seems it will take 90 years to emplace the existing «legacy» waste in it, so the accumulated wastes from the new plants will have to wait, somewhere, until 2130 - long after the new pants have all closed.

-- carbon emissions — health problems from the pollution, such as mercury emissions — high level waste which still has no acceptable means of disposal — non-renewable

Not exact matches

Independent environmental advocacy groups have already been warning that benzene levels in some areas of Texas have reached worrying highs, while more than a dozen toxic waste sites were also flooded or destroyed.

Much more care needs to be taken in choosing locations for deep - mine repositories for high - level radioactive waste.

The Department of Energy estimates that it generally takes 1,500 years for the relative biohazard index of high - level wastes to arrive at that of the ore from which it was made.

I won't waste time trying to bring you up to high - school level so I can explain grad school stuff to you.

At present 5,900 tons of high - level waste (HLW) in the form of spent fuel assemblies are sitting in pools next to operating reactors, together with 75 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste, plus 27 million cubic feet of trans - uranic waste (TRU).

«With a long shelf - life at room temperature, Gourmet Series ingredients can help craft bakers, chocolatiers and chefs eliminate the high levels of waste often associated with fresh fruit, thereby controlling costs,» it said.

-- Councils seeking engineering assistance to develop clear choices and optimum solutions incorporating advanced low - maintenance technologies providing high levels of water purity while reducing maintenance, waste handling and OH&S issues associated with running them.

Food production will need to double by 2050 to meet the rising demands of a growing population and growing income.77 78 Coupled with the supply constraints discussed under A less predictable planet, and the high levels of food waste and food loss, value chains are being forced to become more efficient.

The story of Nestlé's approach to waste and recovery is one of both high - level commitment, and deeply detailed activity, supported by external collaboration.

In Brazil, most waste is occurring in the supply chain, whilst the highest proportion of waste at consumer level is in Europe and North America.

FAST achieves nutrient removal for applications containing high level of nitrogen, a water pollutant that has increased significantly in industrial, commercial and municipal applications and which is an environmental concern particularly to resources, engineering, construction, hospitality, marine, agribusiness and public facility and water and waste water infrastructure organizations.

Innovations will include SkinTight ®, a film which reduces food waste through extending product shelf life; WENTOPRO ®, a film which provides a high barrier against moisture and harmful mineral oils; and FleXtreme ®, the printing technique that provides print quality comparable to Gravure with very high ink and colour density at a more competitive cost level.

Both Post-harvest losses and food waste happening at the consumer level are of high interest for Nestlé and me in particular.

Merely securing a high yield of a few select crops does not solve the problem of hunger nor secure livelihoods for smallholders, and leads to high levels of post-harvest spoilage and food waste.

Rough seas, crowded conditions, temperature extremes and high ammonia levels from the buildup of waste — all exacerbate the risk of illness and injury.

I'm going to repeat what I said earlier... this team actively pursued a policy to undermine the relationship between the fans and the best player on this team... for all intent and purposes this is a traitorous act... so instead of spending money, which all pundits and fans agreed was necessary in order to compete at the highest levels, this club was wasting time and money trying to turn fans against Sanchez long before the end of the season (the real concerted effort started around the time that Wenger benched him for the start of the Liverpool game)... for a team that pertains to be different, like a FAMILY, and constantly questions the tactics of it's opponents, to engage in such a treasonous act is deplorable

Classic «wag the dog» rhetoric... let's stop wasting time discussing players who will never help this club in the future, reminds me too much of the Rosicky and Diaiby years, which provided our inept managerial hierarchy with a plethora of excuses for why we couldn't succeed at the highest levels and / or why we didn't make the necessary moves in the transfer market... this club will never win the EPL or compete in Europe until the Grinch who stole soccer and the Mustache who pays his ridiculous cheques are run out of town... hopefully they will take some of the overpaid and underwhelming deadwood players that WE»VE been supporting for years including Giroud, Walcott, Xhaka, Welbeck, Chambers, Monreal, Ramsey, DeBouchy, Campbell, Mertesaker, Coqs, Elneny, Cech and Wiltshire... if we don't Wenger will gladly renew their contracts and they will represent the bulk of our starting lineup once Ozil and Sanchez move on

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

Following an era of highly - publicized reforms to waste, patronage and bad management, the Park District in the past year has experienced a period of high - level departures and job switches within the ranks.

High levels of E. coli are considered an indicator of other pathogens found in human and animal waste.

High levels of animal waste can make lake water unsafe for swimming, Jones said.

It's important to note that the study did find that «high levels of fruit and vegetable waste continued to be a problem — students discarded roughly 60 % -75 % of vegetables and 40 % of fruits on their trays,» but the authors conclude that this finding means that districts must «must focus on improving food quality and palatability to reduce waste,» rather than seeking to roll back the new meal standards.

Yes, they have blamed Labour for excessive levels of debt and the poor state of the economy, but they have blamed Labour for «waste» and unnecessary spending rather than for high levels of spending on public services (which they support).

When I first found that the high level radioactive waste was lethal for 240,000 years, it changed my mind about nuclear power.

Solid radioactive wastes include laundry (considered low - level waste) and irradiated spent fuel (considered high - level waste.)

The dire consequences of this on many States of the Federation was made worse by some of the earlier decisions the country took including the 2011 minimum wage increase, which from all indications is unsustainable for most states of the federation considering the huge size of the public service of many of them, low productivity and high level of waste.

Truck shipments carrying high - level liquid nuclear waste over the Peace Bridge and across Western New York's highways en route to a South Carolina processing facility could start as early as September, though a lawsuit aims to stop that.

Today's committee report notes that tougher action must be taken to deal with the «unacceptably high» levels of water leakage, saying that in many cases, the waste is putting off consumers from making their own water efficiency savings.

This high level of interaction makes nutrient and waste transfer between mother and fetus more efficient, but it also risks provoking a stronger maternal immune response.

Environmental groups have argued that the application should be dismissed because Congress never intended a private facility to be in the waste storage business when it passed the 1982 law governing how to deal with commercial high - level waste.

In 2014 Perry asked the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to examine letting the state store higher - level commercial waste that — as in the other states hosting privately run reactors — now sits at the plants where it is generated.

Professor Liddle, Head of Inorganic Chemistry and Co-Director of the Centre for Radiochemistry Research at The University of Manchester, added: «We need to reduce the volume of nuclear waste in order to make it easier to handle and process it to remove benign elements or separate the high level from low level waste.»

He's also studying how to immobilize sodium and alumina in high - level radioactive waste in borosilicate glasses that resist crystallization.

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.

While President Obama's plan to find alternatives to storing high - level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nev., is grabbing headlines, another problem has begun threatening license applications for new reactors.

Scientists at The Geological Society of America (GSA) meeting in Denver will describe the potential of shale formations; challenges of deep borehole disposal; and their progress in building a computer model to help improve understanding of the geologic processes that are important for safe disposal of high - level waste.

But permitting a dump site for Class B and Class C material is almost as difficult as siting a high - level waste dump.

«I'm going to argue low - level waste is a bigger issue than high - level waste right now,» Edward Sproat, then - director of the Energy Department's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, warned at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event last fall.

The 310 - acre site already holds millions of gallons of high - level nuclear waste in tanks.