Sentences with phrase «nuclear waste dump in»

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.

(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.

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

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.

(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.

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.

Not exact matches

This approach assumes that if all communities take the NIMBY attitude, government agencies will not be able to find any backyard in which to dump toxic chemicals and nuclear waste, and the system will become plugged.

Trump could have stayed in the Paris Accords and then passed a law allowing companies to dump nuclear waste into drinking water.

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.»

«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.

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 P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow proposes to study ocean rift zones, subduction zones, and the sites of nuclear and toxic waste dumps.

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.

Nor will any number of environmental impact assessments convince it that dumping oil rigs in the deeps — or sewage sludge or old submarines or nuclear waste — is right.

Famous activist Helen Caldicott on plan to make S. Australia a world nuclear dump; and dangerous nuke waste in St. Louis, Missouri.

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).

Radioactive waste leaks threatens vineyards and farming communities in the Champagne and Normandy regions, while the nuclear industry ignores French laws prohibiting dumping of foreign nuclear waste in France.

Other environmental concerns relate to the radioactive contamination of the Arctic Ocean from, for example, Russian radioactive waste dump sites in the Kara Sea [42] and Cold War nuclear test sites such as Novaya Zemlya.

It is very likely that Fukushima was and remains a cover - story for the real source of radioactive poisoning in the Pacific — and that is the unchecked and massive amount of nuclear waste dumped there by the US Navy.

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Every waste dump in the U.S. leaks radiation into the environment, and nuclear plants themselves are running out of ways to store highly radioactive waste on site.

Nuclear powered electricity would be much cheaper if the power station operators were allowed to dump their radioactive wastes in the sea.

Since then, risk assessment has been used to estimate the probability of a catastrophic meltdown at a nuclear power plant, or the probability of a population of grizzly bears becoming locally extinct because too many roads were cut into their forest home, or the probability of children having their IQ lowered by exposure to toxic lead and PCBs in the soil near schools built on a toxic waste dump.

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday declared themselves flatly opposed to building a nuclear waste repository in Nevada, a clear indication that the 2008 presidential election could end a 25 - year effort to build the controversial dump.