Sentences with phrase «for 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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.»

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 half - lives (the period in which radioactivity halves) of these atoms range up to tens of thousands of years, a feature that led U.S. government regulators to require that the planned high - level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada isolate spent fuel for over 10,000 years.

Waste solids could also clog pipes, along with ion - exchange filters designed to grab the most radioactive constituents from the low - level waste for addition to the high - level stream.

Running a fusion reactor creates a small amount of short - lived radioactive waste that decays away in around a century; high - level waste from traditional nuclear reactors can stick around for thousands of years.

Germany, like the United States, has no long - term disposal site for high - level radioactive waste.

The DOE has chosen Yucca Mountain to be the store for spent fuel and high - level waste with a half - life of 24 000 years.

All funding for Yucca development would end, the White House says, because President Obama has «made clear that the nation needs a better solution» for disposing high - level nuclear waste.

Rock salt is a candidate rock to host a repository for high - level radioactive waste (HLW) because of its favourable characteristics.

Why the DOE chose unsuitable sites as candidates for the high - level nuclear waste repository.

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.

The failure to address WIPP's shortcomings does not build confidence that shipping high - level nuclear waste with about 1,000 times more radioactivity than WIPP is approved to handle would be safe now and for thousands of generations that the wastes are hazardous.

Holtec's storage systems for high level military waste have been provided to the US Navy.

Problems at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, proposed site of the first high - level nuclear waste repository, and implications for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a military waste repository in New Mexico.

Since 1986, I have been involved with volcanic hazard studies for the proposed high - level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.

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.

On April 8, 2013, DOE and its co-permittee, Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC, submitted a class 2 Permit Modification Request — Modify Excluded Waste Prohibition — to eliminate the requirement in the WIPP permit for a public hearing before any waste that has ever been managed as high - level could be allowed.

For almost 25 years, there was little attention on WIPP as an alternative consolidated storage or disposal site, because Yucca Mountain was the preferred repository for spent fuel and high - level wasFor almost 25 years, there was little attention on WIPP as an alternative consolidated storage or disposal site, because Yucca Mountain was the preferred repository for spent fuel and high - level wasfor spent fuel and high - level waste.

While the final fate of Yucca Mountain may be decided in Congress, the courts, or the NRC, the fact is that there will be no repository for spent fuel and high - level waste for decades.

The many serious technical deficiencies of the Yucca Mountain site and DOE's flawed approach to geologic disposal notwithstanding, the most potentially explosive aspect of the federal program is the reality that tens of thousands of shipments of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive waste will travel the nation's highways and railroads - through 43 states and thousands of communities, day after day for upwards of 40 years.

Over the years, science has given way to raw politics as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and supporters of DOE's repository project in Congress have sought to obfuscate and compensate for an ever - multiplying set of flaws and problems with the site and with the notion of transporting unprecedented amounts of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level nuclear waste across the country.

The state's official position is that Yucca Mountain is a singularly bad site to house the nation's high - level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel for several reasons:

Now, both forms of fiber are very important because what fiber does, both of these fibers do is it actually speeds up the removal of excess waste and toxins so it actually binds to bile salts within the liver and it removes excess cholesterol which if you're cholesterol levels are too high in your blood then you have a risk for heart disease and things like that.

Continuing to pay for a high level of coverage that is no longer necessary is a complete waste of money.

For instance, cats need a higher percentage of fat in their diets than dogs, which means a higher level of waste fat in their stool.

There is a great deal of support within the industry for the Olympics, with the WTM Report finding that 82 % of senior industry executives see them as having a positive impact on London and the UK, but the Government is in danger of wasting much of this golden opportunity for growth through high levels of aviation tax.

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It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

Yet, no country has developed an acceptable or permanent method for high — level nuclear waste storage, thereby leaving both present and future generations at great risk.

For example, Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC) which operate at much higher - pressure levels, are both larger in size and less efficient at the low temperature where the largest bulk of waste heat is found.

UNEP News Center: Climate change, chemicals and waste management, and biodiversity conservation are top of the agenda as ministers and high - level officials from 31 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean gather for major environmental forum aimed at strengthening regional cooperation.

She has organized and managed education and advocacy programs dealing with a wide range of energy and environmental issues, such as high level nuclear waste legislation, director of a solar installers» training and energy conservation installation program, coordination for numerous state, local and national conferences / strategy workshops, and has assisted community - based groups in establishing job - training / energy rehabilitation programs.