Sentences with phrase «nuclear waste into»

Our recommendations include better enforcement of existing regulations, expedited transfer of nuclear waste into dry casks, strengthened reactor security requirements, and higher safety standards for new plants.

It is perfectly safe and provides an opportunity to recycle existing nuclear waste into hundreds of years of energy.

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 electricity.

Since then, most research has focused on using an ADS to transmute high - level nuclear waste into less harmful material.

Julien Glazier refers to Fergus Gibb's idea of packaging the hottest nuclear waste into tungsten capsules and letting them melt...

Amanda Mascarelli's article describes Fergus Gibb's idea to package the hottest nuclear waste into tungsten capsules and let them melt...

Rory Feeny wonders why we're not seriously considering setting up an international body to fire nuclear waste into the sun...

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

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.

Not exact matches

The endlessly repeated arguments against nuclear power, namely the disposal of nuclear waste, leukemia clusters around nuclear power stations, the cost of decommissioning and the shortage of uranium have all been conclusively refuted or put into proper proportion [1].

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.

A very partial list includes the PAC holding the BBC to account for its staggering severance payments; exposing the billions of pounds squandered by the NHS IT programme; exposing the very poor and costly management of nuclear waste; examining the considerable weaknesses of the Charity Commission; taking Amazon, Google and Starbucks to task for their reluctance to pay Corporation Tax on their UK profits; and probing more deeply than ever before into the affairs of HM Revenue and Customs, exposing serious mistakes by the organisation that HMRC had previously kept hidden.

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.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

First, nuclear waste contaminates whatever it comes into contact with, including people.

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

This nuclear fuel cycle would combine two innovations: pyrometallurgical processing (a high - temperature method of recycling reactor waste into fuel) and advanced fast - neutron reactors capable of burning that fuel.

They could be sealed like a big battery and buried underground for as long as three decades, so terrorists could not get into them and nuclear waste could not get out.

Such nuclear reactors can actually «consume» plutonium via fission (transforming it into other forms of nuclear waste that are not as useful for weapons).

And he emphasized the need to continue research into nuclear safety and the handling of waste.

«The study raises an important issue, how climate change can result in unanticipated release into the environment of toxic and radioactive wastes that were optimistically presumed at the time to be stably isolated,» Daniel Hirsch, director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said in an email.

It's also critical to a future less dependent on foreign oil: Hydraulic fracturing, «clean coal» technologies, nuclear fuel production, and carbon storage (the keystone of the strategy to address climate change) all count on pushing waste into rock formations below the earth's surface.

In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).

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.

Create and manage your own underground vault, keep your vault dwellers happy, and prepare for the inevitable — bandits, radscorpions; venturing out into the long - since nuclear war - torn wastes for supplies.

@Nuclear / Solar Cost of nuclear waste do not go into account in recent comparsions with cost efficiency.

Like with nuclear waste there is no way we can predict into the future what the geological conditions will be like in a million years.

But above all do not put any money into Nuclear power it expensive dangerous and a waste of time.

John D'Agata's move to Las Vegas and subsequent research into the Federal government's plans to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.

The report concludes with a dozen recommendations for policymakers, including reducing subsidies to existing reactors, adopting market - oriented approaches to uranium mining royalties and waste management financing, and incorporating the costs of preventing nuclear proliferation and terrorism into economic assessments of new reactors.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1998 the government had a contractual obligation to put all of the high - level waste into a national repository because of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act that Congress passed in 1982.

Knowing this, companies are queuing up to get into the nuclear waste business, confident that governments will sooner or later be forced to step in and provide the money to keep their citizens safe.

Since those vast fields of panels and mirrors eventually turn into waste products, solar power creates 300 times as much toxic waste per unit of energy produced as does nuclear power.

The good news is that it can be done with existing technology, by cutting energy waste, expanding the use of renewable sources, growing trees and crops (which remove carbon dioxide from the air) to turn into fuel, capturing the gas before it is released from power stations, and - maybe - using more nuclear energy.

Cost estimates also need to take into account plant decommissioning and nuclear waste storage costs.

Even then, all they will achieve is putting as much of the nuclear waste genie as possible back into temporary storage — like before — because we have no real life working solution for it.

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.

For every pound of enriched uranium that goes into a nuclear reactor, more than 25,000 pounds of radioactive waste are produced in the mining and processing of uranium.

Nevertheless, it now serves as a groundwater tracer as indicator of nuclear waste dispersion into the natural environment.

It's also critical to a future less dependent on foreign oil: Hydraulic fracturing, «clean coal» technologies, nuclear fuel production and carbon storage (the keystone of the strategy to address climate change) all count on pushing waste into rock formations below the earth's surface.

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.

Dogz — «We have vast areas of geologically stable desert into which we can dump nuclear waste.

-LSB-... published costs of nuclear - generated electricity never take into account the total lifetime cost of nuclear plants, including decommissioning, maintenance and waste disposal, so one is never able to compare like with like (it's the only form of electricity in which overall costs are ignored)-RSB-

Now before you jump into your nuclear - waste protection suits and dump all your Ecover products into a toxic waste site, what does this all mean?

Or to point out that the published costs of nuclear - generated electricity never take into account the total lifetime cost of nuclear plants, including decommissioning, maintenance and waste disposal, so one is never able to compare like with like (it's the only form of electricity in which overall costs are ignored).

There are other obstacles as well, such as the facts that nuclear power plants take a long time and a lot of material to build, release radioactive material into the environment in «unplanned releases,» generate waste which must be kept isolated from the biosphere for as much as 10,000 years, and create more potential bomb material cruising around the economy.