Any projection of overall environmental impacts and emissions is complicated by the fact that several major applications retain the bulk of their fluorinated gases during their respective life cycles, resulting in the accumulation of significant stocks that need to be responsibly managed when these applications are
eventually decommissioned.
Not exact matches
Although the landfill was
decommissioned and capped several years ago all of the potential PFOA rich leachate goes to the treatment plant and
eventually out to the Hoosic River.
One pragmatic response is to postpone
decommissioning, perhaps for decades, on the basis that radioactive decay will
eventually reduce the scale of the task.
Above ground, civil engineers help design, build and maintain huge offshore structures, seeing them through from an initial concept to operations and
eventually to
decommissioning.
Eventually players will be left to wander a desert in search of as many robots to
decommission as possible, which is a lot more fun to watch in something like Blade Runner than play in something like Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet.
Eventually, the plant must be
decommissioned, a process with which even the experts have little experience, as most nuclear reactors built in this country are still in operation.
Indeed, if the NRC behaves responsibly and stops rubber - stamping license renewals for aging nuclear power plants, and they are
decommissioned as originally planned, it is likely that nuclear's share of US electricity generation will drop, even if a few new plants are
eventually built.