Sentences with phrase «high level waste»

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

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 technical evaluation of the repository program of the French nuclear waste management agency for the disposal of high level waste;

«There's no place to take high level waste in the U.S.,» he said.

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.

Many scientists for decades have considered salt to have serious deficiencies in comparison to some other geologic formations for spent nuclear fuel and high level waste because such heat - generating waste can rapidly deform the rock and create instability that could endanger workers and release radioactivity.

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

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

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

In addition to the repeated promises to limit wastes that were included in the Land Withdrawal Act, WIPP and southeastern New Mexico are not technically suitable for high level waste and spent nuclear fuel.

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).

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.

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.