Sentences with phrase «containing radioactive waste»

The collapse of a tunnel containing radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear weapons complex in Washington State underscored what critics have long been saying: The toxic remnants of the Cold War are being stored in haphazard and unsafe conditions, and time is running out to deal with the problem.

The canister for containing radioactive waste will be carefully constructed.

Not exact matches

The tunnel contained rail cars filled with radioactive waste, leading to concerns of a radiation leak.

Radioactive waste is waste type containing radioactive chemical elements that does not have a practical purpose.

«What we're talking about here is highly complex, multicomponent radioactive waste which contains almost everything in the periodic table,» Goel said.

The idea is that if the box contained, say, radioactive waste, this would be a safe way to remove it.

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.

Science answers: Spent fuel is more dangerous because it contains a mixture of fission products, some of which can be long - lived radioactive waste, and also plutonium which is highly toxic.

Solid waste from horizontal gas wells contains radioactive material that ends up in landfills.

The study found that some well waste from the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania contained radioactive material not previously reported, with the potential for leaching from landfills into the environment.

While acknowledging that «no wreck has yet been found that contains toxic or radioactive waste,» physicist Massimo Scalia of the University of Rome, La Sapienza, who has chaired two parliamentary commissions on illegal waste disposal, argues that other vidence makes their existence «beyond reasonable doubt.»

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).

In late 2008, samples of Chico's municipal drinking water were found to contain radium, a radioactive derivative of uranium and a common attribute of drilling waste.

Coal ash, which contains radioactive material and heavy metals, including chromium, arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury, is China's number one source of solid industrial waste.

If coal ash, a waste product from burning coal to generate power, contains concentrated levels of known carcinogens, neurotoxins and radioactive elements, is it hazardous?

In mid-October, the federal government and the town of Deep River, Ontario announced that they would stop trying to build a repository near Deep River to contain the low - level radioactive wastes from Port Hope, Ontario.

Assessing hazardous waste in general must include the risks involved in handling, containing, transport and storage of radioactive nuclear waste, the greatest risks being posed to the floor workers, the public and the natural environment -(M Simon, The Earth Times, 2011).»

Liquid wastes containing radioactive caesium and strontium salts were stored in underground tanks at Hanford, which rabbits routinely burrowed into.