Sentences with phrase «nuclear waste policy»

Last fall, the group told lawmakers that a nuclear waste policy should focus on a consent - based approach, rather than one focused on Yucca Mountain, that is «technically sound» and requires that SNF is managed safely and securely at reactor sites until a repository becomes available.

It is a strong and compelling case that, when combined with the extraordinary impacts of the project on the country, clearly calls for a change in national nuclear waste policy and direction.

The year «2017 will be a very big year when it comes to nuclear waste policy,» predicted Samuel Brinton, a senior policy analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank in Washington, D.C.

Not exact matches

He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of «full - spectrum dominance,» its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts.

She received her PhD in 2011 from MIT in Engineering Systems, focusing on advanced technologies for nuclear waste recycling, and she holds dual masters degrees from MIT in nuclear engineering and technology policy.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

Buoyed by an allocation of $ 1.25 billion in funding for reactor research from the 2005 Energy Policy Act, INL scientists are working to improve safety, boost efficiency, minimize waste, and decrease cost in a new generation of nuclear reactors.

The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established a framework for the permanent disposal of the nation's nuclear waste, leading to the 1987 selection of Yucca Mountain, a barren peak in the high desert of Nevada, as the site of a deep geologic repository that would be built and operated by the Department of Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established a framework for the permanent disposal of the nation's nuclear waste, leading to the 1987 selection of Yucca Mountain, a barren peak in the high desert of Nevada, as the site of a deep geologic repository that would be built and operated by the Department of nuclear waste, leading to the 1987 selection of Yucca Mountain, a barren peak in the high desert of Nevada, as the site of a deep geologic repository that would be built and operated by the Department of Energy.

«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.

Since 1982, the federal Nuclear Waste Policy Act has required that DOE's high - level waste (HLW) in tanks at Hanford, Washington; Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory; and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, go to the government's HLW repository (slated to be at Yucca Mountain, Nevada).

The January 1997 Record of Decision stated that surplus plutonium would either be immobilized or used as fuel (Mixed - Oxide or MOX) in commercial power plants and the waste would all be disposed in a Nuclear Waste Policy Act repository.

In response to the Obama Administration's «Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future,» SRIC submitted various reports, participated in three meetings, and has provided information about WIPP and nuclear waste storage and disposal policies to the public, policymakers, and theNuclear Future,» SRIC submitted various reports, participated in three meetings, and has provided information about WIPP and nuclear waste storage and disposal policies to the public, policymakers, and thenuclear waste storage and disposal policies to the public, policymakers, and the media.

The Obama administration established the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future on January 29, 2010 to conduct a comprehensive review of spent fuel and high - level waste policies and recommend a new plan.

SRIC networks with dozens of groups throughout the nation on various issues, and staff are widely recognized as policy experts on nuclear wastes, oil and gas, and mining.

However, U.S. government policy is to handle UET as wastes, not a uranium resource, and to build multi-billion-dollar conversion plants to remove the depleted uranium and to dispose of that waste through shallow land burial at low - level nuclear waste disposal sites.

The best solution on the table at the present time is Nuclear power; however, many different policies would need to be changed to deal with waste.

The report on externalities nicely glosses over the nuclear externality that our policy makers want to ignore — waste storage.

Archer argues (in my opinion, quite reasonably) that we need to treat CO2 emissions much the same way as nuclear waste, as the timeframes for those emissions to be negated are quite similar from a policy standpoint.

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.

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Furthermore, Switzerland is making laudable progress on nuclear waste management, and it continues to show leadership in its long - term policy to shift freight transport from road to rail.»

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).

This post addresses uncertainty and risk, and compares the climate change issue to policy issues surrounding nuclear waste disposal in Yucca Mountain.

Friends of the Earth is opposed to nuclear power playing any role in Europe's future energy policy, as it is dangerous, sensationally expensive compared to renewable energy and leaves a legacy of radioactive waste for hundreds of years.