Sentences with phrase «lived nuclear waste»

Existing nuclear reactors use less than 1 % of the energy in uranium, leaving more than 99 % in long - lived nuclear waste.

Not exact matches

He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of «full - spectrum dominance,» its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts.

Chef's note: This sauce has a shelf life longer than most nuclear waste but refrigerate after opening.

The radioactive fallout from a nuclear power plant melt down or nuclear waste is life threatening and a public health catastrophe.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

Late last month, the French industry minister, Dominique Strauss - Kahn, gave conditional backing to a plan devised by the nuclear industry to create what amounts to a politician's dream: a reactor that provides plenty of electricity without generating vast quantities of long - lived radioactive waste.

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

The half - lives (the period in which radioactivity halves) of these atoms range up to tens of thousands of years, a feature that led U.S. government regulators to require that the planned high - level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada isolate spent fuel for over 10,000 years.

Running a fusion reactor creates a small amount of short - lived radioactive waste that decays away in around a century; high - level waste from traditional nuclear reactors can stick around for thousands of years.

Poneman said Monju came up in the discussions because of the possibility of using fast reactors to burn plutonium and the long - lived isotopes of elements such as neptunium and americium that account for much of the radiotoxicity of nuclear waste.

This timescale is well within the half - lives of many of the elements in radioactive waste, yet all the locations for nuclear new - builds that I have seen mooted are in low - lying coastal locations, and all would be threatened or inundated by a 5 - metre rise.

Such boreholes could not house most of the country's waste, like fuel rods from nuclear power plants, but could have potential for smaller, long - lived radioactive materials.

Due to their long life, stem cells may suffer from multiple LDIR insults from medical diagnosis and therapy, air travel, illegal IR waste dumpsites, or by occupational exposures in the nuclear and medical sectors, which can combine to the detriment of stem cell function.

Nuclear waste is toxic and some of it has half lives of millions of years and exposure to only trace amounts can do severe damage.

Looking particularly at the freight of nuclear waste that we are interring every day, Giblin asks us to consider how we shoulder a responsibility to future generations inhabiting this planet, a responsibility that extends to 240,000 years, or ten times the half - life of plutonium.

Dave wrote in Comment 9: ``... they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create waste that can't be disposed of» and «Wind / Solar et al. is nice but is getting no funding and going nowhere fast right now, not to mention the fact that it might not do us much good anyway on the kind of unsustainable economic scales we (at least Americans) want to live at.»

From the news that E. coli can be used to recover uranium from tainted waters and clean up nuclear waste to the first «living» building grown in Germany, a lot happened this week in green.

He contrasted the advantages of renewables over nuclear power plants as their ease of decommissioning: there is no long - lived radioactive waste to deal with, and upgrading, for example, offshore wind turbines, is cost - effective because the foundations and infrastructure are already built.

And just like existing nuclear power plants, they produce long - lived, highly radioactive nuclear waste for which no safe management and permanent storage exists.

We do not know the true extent of damage nuclear waste will cause with its 1/2 life of some 20,000 year.

Problematic nuclear waste disposal for very long - lived radioactive elements (e.g. Yucca Mountain); 3.

Conventional nuclear waste contains 96.6 % uranium oxide, 3.4 % fission products and 1 % long lived actinides.

Most of today's nuclear power plants have half - century - old technology with light - water reactors [243] utilizing less than 1 % of the energy in the nuclear fuel and leaving unused fuel as long - lived nuclear «waste» requiring sequestration for millennia.

They can also be used to burn the long - lived actinides found in high - level nuclear wastes and to dispose of ex-military plutonium.

I am likely in support of fourth gen nuclear considering the safety factors, the 90 percent reduced waste with a vastly reduced 1/2 life, etc, but I do not get how coal in modern plants is so harmful?

Even then, all they will achieve is putting as much of the nuclear waste genie as possible back into temporary storage — like before — because we have no real life working solution for it.

-- as compared to a nuclear reactor which also has a «Life expectancy of 20 — 25 years and then costs $ 50,000,000,000.00 to refurbish for another 15 — 20 (refurbished reactors have a shorter life before they have to be refurbished again or de-commissioned at which time the site has become so contaminated that it's un-usable for up to 25,000 years because that's the 1/2 half - life for waste / spent uranium to break down, i.e. if you have 1 lb of spent uranium after 25,000 years you have 1/2Life expectancy of 20 — 25 years and then costs $ 50,000,000,000.00 to refurbish for another 15 — 20 (refurbished reactors have a shorter life before they have to be refurbished again or de-commissioned at which time the site has become so contaminated that it's un-usable for up to 25,000 years because that's the 1/2 half - life for waste / spent uranium to break down, i.e. if you have 1 lb of spent uranium after 25,000 years you have 1/2life before they have to be refurbished again or de-commissioned at which time the site has become so contaminated that it's un-usable for up to 25,000 years because that's the 1/2 half - life for waste / spent uranium to break down, i.e. if you have 1 lb of spent uranium after 25,000 years you have 1/2life for waste / spent uranium to break down, i.e. if you have 1 lb of spent uranium after 25,000 years you have 1/2 lb.

Major International Environmental Agreements: A party to Conventions on Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands and Whaling.

So here we have a real life example of radioactive nuclear waste causing real harm now.

We do not need subsidies any more for alternative energy, we need the other technologies to fully pay for the «externalities» of their operations, such as damaged kids, shortened lives, remediation of their damages, safe and permanent handling of their wastes, (such as coal ash and high level nuclear waste), and the like.

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.

Major International Environmental Agreements: A party to Conventions on Air Pollution, Air Pollution - Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution - Sulphur 85, Antarctic - Environmental Protocol, Antarctic - Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Wetlands and Whaling.

If an American used nuclear power their entire life, they would produce enough nuclear waste to fill a soda can.

I (and perhaps others here) would welcome pointers to any peer - reviewed reports you are aware of that assess the energy cost of the entire nuclear life - cycle (from mining through waste storage and monitoring) so that the overall EROEI for the entire nuclear energy life cycle can be known (the kind of thing being done for ethanol).