Sentences with phrase «including radioactive waste»

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These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands of years.

Solid radioactive wastes include laundry (considered low - level waste) and irradiated spent fuel (considered high - level waste.)

Long - time problems associated with HHF such as major spills including from pipelines or what to do with radioactive and toxic waste water from a fracked well have not been rectified.

The slag, which typically includes some radioactive uranium and radium in addition to calcium minerals, is the waste product from the conversion of phosphate ore to phosphorus.

This process could help scientists and governments comply with the European Council Directive 2011 / 70 / EURATOM on the «responsible and safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste» which requires EU Member States to establish a dedicated policy, including the implementation of national programmes for the management of spent fuel and radioactive waste.

Mariotte said utilities that want to build new reactors have known for 10 years that Barnwell would close but failed to include on - site storage or options for handling low - level radioactive waste in their license applications.

They are part of the radioactive waste which several governments — including the French — are planning to bury in deep underground repositories, thereby risking public anger.

A few studies have found naturally occurring radioactive materials in the solid waste, but the research only focused on several long - lived radioactive isotopes including uranium - 238 and radium - 226.

For instance when developing risk models for radioactive waste that includes radioactive chloride,» says Teresia Svensson, senior lecturer at Linköping University.

When the U.S. military abandoned Camp Century, a complex of tunnels dug into the ice of northwest Greenland, in the mid-1960s, they left behind thousands of tons of waste, including hazardous radioactive and chemical materials.

Her current research areas include chemistry of radioactive waste systems, environmental chemistry, actinide separations, and radioanalytical chemistry.

During the next two years, as Nevada challenges or confronts DOE, Congress, and, perhaps, the NRC concerning various aspects of the Yucca Mountain program, it will be equally important to undertake efforts to assure that the issue of radioactive waste shipments, including the routes such shipments will use and the cities and communities that will be impacted, is given wide exposure nationally.

The contract - which includes a one - year base period and four one - year option periods - provides continuing technical assistance and research support to NRC activities related to storage, transportation, possible reprocessing and ultimate geological disposal of used nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive wastes.

Dr. Boardman's career at the INL includes technical leadership thermal treatment of radioactive wastes and modeling and simulation of carbon conversion to power, synthetic fuels, chemicals, and hydrogen.

How to reduce nuclear wastes or how to treat them including the debris from TEPCO's Fukushima nuclear power stations is discussed; and 3) Environmental radioactivity, radioactive waste treatment and geological disposal policy.State - of - the - art technologies for overall back - end issues of the nuclear fuel cycle as well as the technologies of transmutation are presented here.

Our wide - ranging and slightly scattered conversation included his plot to get the government to marbleize and bury all radioactive waste, and the story of the time he snuck into the Department of the Interior.

These externalities include air pollution and radioactive waste disposal as well as CO2 emissions.

Coal ash, which contains radioactive material and heavy metals, including chromium, arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury, is China's number one source of solid industrial waste.

This included fracking wastewater that state officials had allowed to be dumped at local sewer plants — facilities incapable of removing the complex mix of chemicals, corrosive salts, and radioactive materials from that kind of industrial waste before they piped the «treated» water back into Pennsylvania's rivers.

Assessing hazardous waste in general must include the risks involved in handling, containing, transport and storage of radioactive nuclear waste, the greatest risks being posed to the floor workers, the public and the natural environment -(M Simon, The Earth Times, 2011).»

Examples include refining ways to securely handle radioactive waste from nuclear reactors; testing repositories for carbon dioxide captured at power plants; and, perhaps more important, improving the electricity grid so that it can manage large flows from intermittent sources like windmills and solar panels.

These include the potential of catastrophic reactor accidents on the scale of Chernobyl, the difficulties of managing long - lived radioactive waste, and increased likelihood of nuclear weapons proliferation.

Researchers of a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters on Aug. 4 said that the military camp's infrastructure, which include the remaining biological, radioactive and chemical wastes, could re-enter the environment and disrupt nearby ecosystem because of climate change.

These wastes include tons of sewage, gasoline, radioactive coolant water and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

«A new video — Everything you always wanted to know about nuclear power... but were afraid to ask — found on the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility Web site, debunks various nuclear myths including the notion that France «recycles» its radioactive waste.»

Responsible for tracking and monitoring over 100 processes within the Defense Waste Processing Facility, including high level radioactive waste transfers, chemical adjustments to waste tanks, and controlling a multi-zone ventilation for the building.

As a tech 2, my responsibilities included, but were not limited to; removing all trash, bio-hazard waste, radioactive waste, sharp containers, and boxes from the builds.