Sentences with phrase «most nuclear waste»

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Their fundamental discoveries may aid research into the management of nuclear waste, by helping scientists understand how chemicals can be used to separate the most radioactive elements.
Manchester scientists have revealed how arsenic molecules might be used to «fish out» the most toxic elements from radioactive nuclear waste — a breakthrough that could make the decommissioning industry even safer and more effective.
U.S. low - level waste comes from a wide range of places, including hospitals and laboratories, but the greatest — and most toxic — volume is produced by the Energy Department and the 104 commercial nuclear reactors.
There is also little incentive for companies to try to license and develop new low - level waste sites, because nuclear plants, which generate most of that waste, have managed to dramatically reduce their volume and store more on site, according to Todd Lovinger, executive director of the Low - Level Radioactive Waste Forum, a nonprofit that is helping state compacts comply with the low - level waste law.
The most toxic and voluminous nuclear waste in the U.S. — 208 million liters — sits in decaying underground tanks at the Hanford Site (a nuclear reservation) in southeastern Washington State.
The climate debacle is only the most conspicuous example of these debilitating tendencies, which play out in issues as diverse as nuclear waste disposal, protection of endangered species, and regulation of pharmaceuticals.
Since then, most research has focused on using an ADS to transmute high - level nuclear waste into less harmful material.
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.
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.
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) believes that PRISM offers the most efficient, clean, cost - effective option for turning nuclear waste into low carbon energy; while also managing used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electNuclear Energy (GEH) believes that PRISM offers the most efficient, clean, cost - effective option for turning nuclear waste into low carbon energy; while also managing used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electnuclear waste into low carbon energy; while also managing used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electnuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electricity.
By far the most popular creation of them all is «The Toxic Avenger,» a mild - mannered mop boy who falls into a vat of lime - green nuclear waste and emerges as the first hideously deformed superhero from New Jersey.
The nuclear waste angle throws a bit of a curveball, and does set up a couple of funny moments where Max, overcome with jealousy, tries to cut out his girlfriend's most prominent suitor from the competition.
You and your squad of Desert Rangers must traverse the remains of a land laid to waste by nuclear war. The Wasteland's hellish landscape is waiting for you, so arm your team to the teeth with the most devastating weaponry this side of the fallout zone.
My own take on this is that people will take the short - term most efficiently expedient actions, which is also the worst thing they can do — they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create radioactive waste that can't be disposed of....
To make matters worse, if we built wind to 20 % penetration, most of that money will be * wasted * if we build nuclear or renewable resources to 100 %, because these plants are non-emitting and uneconomical to run as load - followers.
It can consume most of the waste and could run the world on the nuclear waste produced so far.
A veteran of the U.S. Submarine Service (one hitch) and a degreed Electrical Engineer (U.T. Knoxville — 1968 — three peer - reviewed IEEE papers published), I spent most of my career designing, building and commissioning electric power generating plants including hydro, pumped storage, coal fired, natural gas, nuclear (both PWR and BWR), geothermal, wood - waste, and landfill gas.
We'll also invest in finding cleaner ways to use coal, our nation's most abundant energy source, and safer ways to use nuclear power and store nuclear waste.
African American communities, including workers, are most likely to be exposed to the pollution from fossil fuel based energy production through coal plants, oil and gas refineries, as well as pollution from energy production through nuclear facilities and waste incinerators.
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.
The most wonderful illustration of this mismatch between what science can tell us and what politicians care about is the effort to build a long - term storage site for nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
«The European Union will spend about 700 million euros ($ 900 million) to build the world's most powerful lasers, technology that could destroy nuclear waste and provide new cancer treatments.»
The climate debacle is only the most conspicuous example of these debilitating tendencies, which play out in issues as diverse as nuclear waste disposal, protection of endangered species, and regulation of pharmaceuticals.
Nuclear waste is probably the most dreaded substances in existence, in part because it's proved so difficult to effectively clean
Most of the business world has been transformed repeatedly over the last 50 years, but the micro-economy of corporate lawyers has been preserved in the kind of pristine stillness usually associated with nuclear waste in an underground salt cavern...
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