Sentences with phrase «most radioactive waste»

The MIT Study found that reprocessing and recycling plutonium — which creates weapon - usable material and some of the most radioactive waste in the world — is also uneconomic and likely to remain so for decades to come.

Not exact matches

In addition to these three properties, Investigative Post reported last July that state and federal officials in 1979 identified dozens of other residential and commercial properties — most in Niagara County — contaminated with what they believe is radioactive industrial waste.

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.

There are about 1,300 dry casks at 55 sites nationwide; however, most of the radioactive waste generated in the United States sits in cooling pools similar to Japan's.

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.

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.

Waste solids could also clog pipes, along with ion - exchange filters designed to grab the most radioactive constituents from the low - level waste for addition to the high - level stream.

For ores that contain even less concentrated uranium — McArthur River is the most concentrated active mine — the proportion of waste in radium and other radioactive elements (as well as toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury) is even higher — and McArthur River's uranium is much less concentrated than the mines of the past like nearby Rabbit Lake or Shinkolobwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.

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.

All this would be of substantially less concern if New York were like most of the other states that produce some radioactive waste during natural gas drilling.

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.

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.

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....

Morgan Lewis has successfully handled some of the sector's most challenging radioactive waste management, decontamination, and decommissioning issues.