Sentences with phrase «for radioactive waste»
- No increase in funding for radioactive waste cleanup, even though in a number of cases funding is already insufficient to meet legal milestones.
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Contaminant biology research funded by the Environmental Health Program is slated for reductions, and the Toxic Substances Hydrology Program would see funding eliminated for radioactive waste disposal and municipal wastewater science.
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.
Public opposition to a dump for radioactive waste in northern Germany has forced the government to hold a public hearing into the safety and suitability of the plan — the first such hearing to be held in the country.
The agreement requires Entergy to make repairs and upgrades to Indian Point and its storage system for the radioactive waste that remains after the fuel is used.
Albrecht - Schmitt said that the discoveries could help scientists build new storage containers for radioactive waste, plus help separate radioactive fuel, which means the fuel could be recycled.
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.
For instance when developing risk models for radioactive waste that includes radioactive chloride,» says Teresia Svensson, senior lecturer at Linköping University.
Even with a fleet of such fast reactors, nations would nonetheless require an ultimate home for radioactive waste, one reason that a 2010 M.I.T. report on spent nuclear fuel dismissed such fast reactors.
Billions of dollars have been spent to evaluate Yucca Mountain as disposal site for radioactive waste since the 1970s.
The Land of Berlin has entrusted Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin to operate the state collection centre for radioactive waste, ZRA (Zentralstelle für radioaktive Abfälle).
Residents and environmental activists expressed concerns at a public hearing Wednesday night that the state's pending stormwater permit for the Bridgeton Landfill does not require monitoring for radioactive waste.
As Mother Jones reports, there's is a fat market for radioactive waste disposal, since 36 states lack a permanent location for storage, and Simmons has lobbied to allow other states to petition to have their waste shipped off to his facility in Texas.
The Transuranic Package Transporter (TRUPACT - II) is a specialized tractor - trailor used for radioactive waste.