Sentences with phrase «in radioactive waste disposal»

Although bacteria with waste - eating properties have been discovered in relatively pristine soils before, this is the first time that microbes that can survive in the very harsh conditions expected in radioactive waste disposal sites have been found.

Not exact matches

There has been a stagnation in the building of nuclear power stations in Europe as fears concerning safety have mounted, especially in the wake of the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, and the problem of the disposal and storage of radioactive waste materials has not been solved.

A team of scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) working in collaboration with Tohoku University, Tokyo City University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency has proposed a novel approach to tackle the problem of radioactive waste disposal.

Short - term fixes Existing disposal facilities have adequate capacity for most low - level radioactive waste and are accessible to waste generators in the short term, but constraints on the long - term disposal of class B and C wastes have become clear, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office last year.

The household product was used to absorb liquid in radioactive debris at a waste disposal site in New Mexico where a radiation escaped to the surface and exposed 21 workers

In 1980, Congress passed a law that made states responsible for disposal of their own wastes, but states were encouraged to form compacts to locate one low - level radioactive waste site for several states.

Ten Russian inventors are filing patent applications in the West which give an alarming insight into the Eastern bloc's past policy on radioactive waste disposal.

For example, an entire nuclear cycle involving light - water reactors, reprocessing of the spent fuel, and disposal of small «packages» of highly radioactive nuclear waste in deep boreholes could prove an attractive option, Moniz noted.

Over the following decades other treaties expanded the regulations, culminating in a 1993 amendment to the London Dumping Convention that halted the ocean disposal of all radioactive waste and in a 1995 amendment to the Basel Convention that banned the deposition of the industrial world's lethal excreta in developing countries.

The immediate motivation for safe disposal is the radioactive waste stored currently at the Hanford Site, a facility in Washington State that produced plutonium for nuclear weapons during the Cold War.

But in New York, injection disposal wells are uncommon, and those that do exist aren't licensed to receive radioactive waste or Marcellus Shale wastewater, according to the EPA.

Although the review pointed to a possible need for radioactive licensing and disposal for certain materials, and it looked at other states with laws aimed at radioactive waste from drilling, the DEC said there is no precedent for examining how these radioactive materials might affect the environment when brought to the surface at the volumes and scale expected in New York.

Since vitrification and disposal in a federal repository of highly radioactive waste is expensive, there is an advantage to first reducing the amount of the highly radioactive waste to be vitrified, with the goal of having to process less volume.

Though the concept of borehole disposal, which would see radioactive waste entombed far deeper than traditional repositories, has existed for decades, the idea has been revived in recent years, spurred by troubles in finding a long - term home for the country's spent fuel.

Those limits were in keeping with the 1979 law (Public Law 96 - 164, Section 213) that authorized WIPP «a research and development facility to demonstrate the safe disposal of radioactive wastes from the defense activities and programs of the United States exempted from regulation by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission» (NRC).

See Craig, «Disposal of radioactive wastes in the ocean,» in National Research Council (1957), 34 - 42.

But it offers no viable solutions to the raft of problems plaguing nuclear power, such as the erosion of public trust in this energy source in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, difficulties over the disposal of radioactive waste and the problem - plagued nuclear fuel recycling program.

any nuclear reactor wherever located; any nuclear fuel cycle facility; any radioactive waste management facility; the transport and storage of nuclear fuels or radioactive wastes; the manufacture, use, storage, disposal and transport of radioisotopes for agricultural, industrial, medical and related scientific and research purposes; and the use of radioisotopes for power generation in space objects

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.