Sentences with phrase «nuclear waste dump»

The budget for the Department of Energy would include $ 120 million to restart licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a project that has been stalled for years because of lawsuits and local opposition.

The proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump site in Nevada gets a $ 120 million reboot on licensing for the project in the White House's 2018 budget blueprint for the U.S. Department of Energy.

State Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, in an email to news media, said Friday that «we must be vigilant to assure that the facility does not transition from an operating power plant to a dormant nuclear waste dump.»

(Reuters)- Managers mishandled a radiation leak at a New Mexico nuclear waste dump in which 21 workers were exposed to airborne radioactive particles due in part to substandard equipment and safety systems, a U.S. investigator said on Wednesday.

Bacteria could not only thrive on nuclear waste dumped underground, but may immobilise it and make it safer.

Both candidates oppose Yucca Mountain, the controversial proposed nuclear waste dump.

(Reuters)- Government scientists have not been able to replicate a chemical reaction suspected of causing a radiation leak at a U.S. nuclear waste dump in New Mexico, complicating efforts to understand what went wrong, a U.S. Energy Department official said Friday.

Regulators failed to collect air samples in the week following a radiation release at a New Mexico nuclear waste dump because of a vacancy in the office responsible for monitoring the site

The radiation levels typically found at nuclear waste dumps don't seem to pose a problem for bacteria either.

The legislation also includes provisions that would continue efforts to open a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada, prevent the Obama administration from moving ahead with new environmental rules aimed at strengthening protections for small streams and wetlands, and bar adding the sage grouse to the endangered species list.

@finemrespice Living near Baltimore, idea of turning it in2a toxic nuclear waste dump could b an improvement.

Utah holds the unfortunate distinction of being home to the largest low - level nuclear waste dump in the United States, EnergySolutions, which is about 70 miles from Salt Lake City.

Now, his company is seeking two licenses that would let it open up a Texas - sized nuclear waste dump for materials from reactors, hospitals, and weapons programs.

«We must be vigilant to assure that the facility does not transition from an operating power plant to a dormant nuclear waste dump,» Cahill, a Democrat who represents Dutchess and Ulster counties, said in a statement.

The question of who has the right to involve themselves in scientific and technological progress, whose imagined future world is to prevail, is dealt with in several chapters: Kim Laughlin's piece on protest groups after the chemical accident at Bhopal in 1984; Kathleen Stewart's description of the «bitter faiths» in science and technology expressed by residents near the site of a proposed nuclear waste dump; Hugh Gusterson's chapter about Sylvia, a weapons scientist.

Nevada's longest - serving senator helped propel the passage of President Barack Obama's signature health care law, blocked the development of a nuclear waste dump in Nevada and built a well - organized Democratic machine in the state.

There are some citizens out there who feel having a nuclear waste dump in their backyard is madness.

By Laura Zuckerman (Reuters)- A radiation leak that indefinitely shut down a nuclear waste dump in New Mexico was likely caused by a container of radioactive materials improperly packaged with a lead - lined glove at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a state lawmaker said on Friday.

(Reuters)- A radiation leak that indefinitely shut down a nuclear waste dump in New Mexico was likely caused by a container of radioactive materials improperly packaged with a lead - lined glove at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a state lawmaker said on Friday.

In their illustrated «devil's dictionary» of land development gone amok, Hayden and Wark highlight such blights as the LULU (a locally unwanted land use, such as a nuclear waste dump), the TOAD (temporary, obsolete, abandoned, or derelict site), and the rampaging suburban Zoomburb.

The new president approved $ 120 million to resume licensing Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste dump, but researchers at the energy department have other plans

The world's only deep underground nuclear waste dump is in New Mexico, and efforts of many New Mexicans to prevent high - level waste disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) have had an effect on the state's decisions (page 5).

Based on a story by H.G. Wells, this unintentionally funny sci - fi horror thriller centers on the travails of foolish property buyers who unwittingly purchase land that is dangerously close to a nuclear waste dump.