Sentences with phrase «level radioactive»

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.

Advising the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on the community benefit structure for the extension of national low level radioactive waste repository near Drigg.

RE # 129: Lucia, I can give you an example of a code that has had «full V&V» for its use on the Yucca Mountain Project (high - level radioactive waste repository).

In the past, the U.S. has allowed the importation of small quantities of low - level radioactive waste - EnergySolutions» request is 25 times larger than the previous largest import.

Ratepayers and taxpayers have already paid over $ 11 billion on the fatally flawed Yucca Mountain high - level radioactive waste dumpsite, with another $ 80 billion to go.»

Instead, the administration appointed the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future to address, once again, the country's efforts to store and dispose of high - level radioactive wastes.

In mid-October, the federal government and the town of Deep River, Ontario announced that they would stop trying to build a repository near Deep River to contain the low - level radioactive wastes from Port Hope, Ontario.

How often have you heard phrases such as «clean coal,» «safe nuclear power,» «clean diesel,» or «low - level radioactive waste»?

Nuclear power is the only energy source where mishap or malice can kill so many people so far away; the only one whose ingredients can help make and hide nuclear bombs; the only climate solution that substitutes proliferation, accident, and high - level radioactive waste dangers.

There is a large, well known chemical company that was once under contract with the U S Department of Energy that insisted the best way to process millions of gallons of very high level radioactive waste was to add a complex organic molecule to million gallon underground waste tanks.

Prof. David Ireland: «I currently have a research contract with the National Nuclear Laboratory and Sellafield Ltd to develop a detector system that can image intermediate level radioactive waste barrels.»

Ken Czerwinski (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has accepted an invitation from the director of the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to serve as an expert on a study mandated by Congress on the treatment of low - level radioactive waste at the Hanford site in Washington state...

The Government of Canada is committed to the cleanup and safe management of historic low - level radioactive waste in Port Hope and Clarington.

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.

The initial purpose of the CNWRA was to support licensing and regulatory oversight of the potential high - level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

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.

«Finding innovative ways to accelerate remediation and reduce the costs of high - level radioactive waste at Hanford and other locations will serve the state of Washington and the American public,» Clark said.

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

The ZRA houses low - level to intermediate - level radioactive materials that arise primarily from medicine, industry, research and teaching.

They have been forced to pump low - level radioactive water, left by the tsunami, back into the sea in order to free up storage capacity for highly contaminated water from reactors.

The high - level radioactive waste would then be incorporated into the glass matrix.

The report recommended two options that fulfilled this objective: the consumption of plutonium in MOX fuel and the immobilization of plutonium with high level radioactive waste (HLW).

A proposal to bury most of Germany's low and intermediate level radioactive waste at Schacht Konrad, a disused mine in Lower Saxony, has existed since 1975.

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

Based on building materials used in the Arctic at the time, the authors speculate the site contains polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pollutants toxic to human health, along with an unknown volume of low - level radioactive coolant from the nuclear generator.

They have introduced a bill banning foreign import of low - level radioactive waste unless there is an exemption from the president.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He's also studying how to immobilize sodium and alumina in high - level radioactive waste in borosilicate glasses that resist crystallization.

When I first found that the high level radioactive waste was lethal for 240,000 years, it changed my mind about nuclear power.

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will begin construction of a $ 3.5 million facility in June to better handle the storing and transporting of low - level radioactive waste.

Much more care needs to be taken in choosing locations for deep - mine repositories for high - level radioactive waste.

The Federal Nuclear Waste Policy Act has mandated that deep - mine disposal of high - level radioactive effluent and spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors commence by 1998, but states with proposed geological sites are screaming foul.

Not exact matches

AAA's medical tech uses trace levels of radioactive compounds to both map out and fight cancer.

Schwartz estimates the cobalt would take 53 years to return to non-dangerous levels, and that other radioactive elements could persist for much longer.

One of the big advantages of the approach that this paper uses is that, to decide on a strategy, evacuation officials need to consider only the radiation levels near shelters and along evacuation routes — the overall pattern of the radioactive death - cloud does not factor into the models.

Now, AES» own groundwater monitoring report showed a sharp increase in the levels of arsenic, chromium, and two radioactive isotopes in groundwater near the plant after Hurricane Maria.

Just so, on the inorganic level, every element in the periodic scale has its special characteristics, and some, like the radioactive substances, have qualities of far - reaching significance in certain respects.

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.

At present 5,900 tons of high - level waste (HLW) in the form of spent fuel assemblies are sitting in pools next to operating reactors, together with 75 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste, plus 27 million cubic feet of trans - uranic waste (TRU).

Elevated levels of radium have been found in groundwater samples from shallow monitoring wells on the Bethpage High School campus and the state DEC plans to take more samples and scan field and soil areas there for more radioactive elements.

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

State environmental officials last night ordered Northrop Grumman to grant access to wells monitoring a Bethpage plume after the local water district reported levels of the radioactive element radium exceeded drinking water standards.

Soil and slag with low levels of radioactive material — a remnant of the steel - making process that once took place at RiverBend in South Buffalo — would be buried underneath a foot of clean soil at two locations on the property where workers are finishing the SolarCity solar panel factory.

Additional testing has turned up even higher levels of radioactive tritium than what was reported last week at the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

Additional testing has turned up higher levels of radioactive tritium in groundwater than what was reported last week at the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

This investigation is examining multiple unplanned shutdowns, a transformer fire that triggered the declaration of an unusual event level emergency, and most recently, a radioactive tritium leak that has caused groundwater radioactivity levels to rise more than 65,000 percent.

It turns out that Raymond's basement had radon, a potent radioactive gas linked to lung cancer, at levels three times greater than regulatory limits.