Sentences with phrase «nuclear waste in»

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...

The nuclear waste in those drums will do nicely.

He was only pointing out that in the last 50 years we have not been able to summon the political will to put our nuclear waste in a proper long term facility.

Consensus is that the unsurmountable effort to implement any solid policy relating to long - term management of nuclear waste in the U.S. is centered around Yucca Mountain (Figure 3).

So everyone making 4 kg of nuclear waste in their lifetime, how much should be spent dealing with the waste in terms cost per kg?

Roger Johnson Comments: Consideration of safe storage of nuclear waste in California at April 27 Meeting

In addition, our green energy facilities do not produce nuclear waste in their generation of electricity.

He should probably state before the election which state is safer to store nuclear waste in than Nevada.

But Simon's Black Square, a cube of vitrified nuclear waste in the dimensions of Malevich's Black Square, wasn't there.

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.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted a plan to store slightly used nuclear waste in New Mexico.

A similar chemical reaction stemming from the sloppy disposal of Los Alamos» nuclear waste in 2014 provoked the shutdown of a deep - underground storage site in New Mexico for more than two years, a DOE accident investigation concluded.

Dear EarthTalk: I've heard that there are plans to build a large repository for nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain in Nevada, but that plans have been slow and are very controversial.

For example, an entire nuclear cycle involving light - water reactors, reprocessing of the spent fuel, and disposal of small «packages» of highly radioactive nuclear waste in deep boreholes could prove an attractive option, Moniz noted.

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 310 - acre site already holds millions of gallons of high - level nuclear waste in tanks.

Professor Liddle, Head of Inorganic Chemistry and Co-Director of the Centre for Radiochemistry Research at The University of Manchester, added: «We need to reduce the volume of nuclear waste in order to make it easier to handle and process it to remove benign elements or separate the high level from low level waste.»

The House is scheduled to vote next week on legislation that would move forward a long - stalled plan to store the nation's nuclear waste in Nevada's Yucca Mountain.

Not exact matches

Among the moon's vast riches: gold, cobalt, iron, palladium, platinum, tungsten and helium - 3, a gas that can be used in future fusion reactors to provide nuclear power without radioactive waste.

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.

Small towns want to solve Canada's decades - old nuclear waste problem by burying it in their backyards.

Ontario has already wasted billions on natural gas - fired power plants that were never built and could potentially squander billions more refurbishing aging nuclear stations in a bid to prop up the province's atomic industry.

For $ 1,120,000, Perry's second largest career contributor, Dallas billionaire investor Harold Simmons, got expedited approval of a nuclear waste disposal site situated in West Texas and underlain by four major aquifers.

Spent nuclear fuel rods and other waste would be buried 100 feet deep in a buffer zone between the border and the wall.

But in this Gilead, Atwood has imagined a time when our nightmares about the perils of toxic waste, radioactive fallout, chemical and biological warfare, nuclear sabotage and the building

Certain nuclear wastes are extremely long - lasting in their toxicity.

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.

Nuclear waste from Chernobyl fell in Finland.

These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands of years.

Nuclear weapons, unleashed to shorten a war, now threaten us all with annihilation, and, even when unused, waste billions of dollars in resources.

The planning was set in motion by President Jimmy Carter's directive to Congress on February 12, 1980, wherein he said, «My paramount objective in managing nuclear wastes is to protect the health and safety of all Americans, both now and in the future.»

There has been a stagnation in the building of nuclear power stations in Europe as fears concerning safety have mounted, especially in the wake of the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, and the problem of the disposal and storage of radioactive waste materials has not been solved.

South Australian Agriculture Minister Leon Bignell injected $ 2.5 million in funds into the Beston dairy facilities on Wednesday and said he didn't think there would be any compromising of the state's «clean and green» premium food and wine image if it eventually pursued an underground nuclear waste facility in the desert lands in the north of the state, as recommended by a nuclear Royal Commission.

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(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.

«Even in a perfect world where energy companies didn't make mistakes, nuclear power is and always has been a dangerous idea because there is no good way to store nuclear waste.

The collapse of a tunnel containing radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear weapons complex in Washington State underscored what critics have long been saying: The toxic remnants of the Cold War are being stored in haphazard and unsafe conditions, and time is running out to deal with the problem.

There's no indication the first reported transport of liquid nuclear waste from the Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario passed over the Peace Bridge.

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.

In the meantime, highly radioactive waste is being stored on - site in spent fuel pools at each nuclear plant, with 1500 tons of waste are currently stored at Indian PoinIn the meantime, highly radioactive waste is being stored on - site in spent fuel pools at each nuclear plant, with 1500 tons of waste are currently stored at Indian Poinin spent fuel pools at each nuclear plant, with 1500 tons of waste are currently stored at Indian Point.

The technical advantage is that local generation eliminates the enormous losses of wasted heat and long transmission that consume more than half the energy used in electricity generation by fossil fuels or nuclear.

Questioned by Sir Menzies on the issue in the Commons last week, the prime minister said times had changed since the 2003 energy white paper described nuclear energy as an unattractive option in terms of cost and waste.

Meanwhile, the Finnish government has agreed to take responsibility for nuclear waste after 60 years, something the Lib Dems say could cost billions in Britain, while it is also providing indirect subsidies in the form of export guarantees and 30 - year contracts.

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

We're governed by an interim prime minister whose Cabinet is more interested in their own egos than facing up to the biggest challenge to face our country since 1945, and have threatened the EU with ending our cooperation on security and intelligence issues as well as returning nuclear waste.

This evening though David Cameron and Barack Obama will meet in Washington to announce a landmark deal to turn nuclear waste into cancer - fighting treatment.

Dave Prentis will speak at Unison's political conference in Manchester where he is expected to reject the government's nuclear submarines as «criminal waste».

Trucks are scheduled next year to carry thousands of gallons of radioactive nuclear waste across the Peace Bridge in trips from Ontario to South Carolina.

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.»