Sentences with phrase «lived radioactive waste»

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.

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.

Science answers: Spent fuel is more dangerous because it contains a mixture of fission products, some of which can be long - lived radioactive waste, and also plutonium which is highly toxic.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»

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

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.

Low energy electrons are ubiquitous and are known to play important role in variety of phenomena relevant to astrochemistry (where they participate in synthesis of new molecules), in radiation biology (where they cause chemical changes in living cell, plasma chemistry), atmospheric chemistry, radioactive waste management and nanolithography — to name but a few.

The fascinating biological processes that they use to support life under such extreme conditions are being studied by the Manchester group, as well as the stabilizing effects of these humble bacteria on radioactive 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.

This effort doubles the amount of energy recovered from the fuel and removes most of the long - lived radioactive elements from the waste that must be permanently stored.

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.

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

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

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