Sentences with phrase «nuclear waste program»

In response to the report, the DOE in January 2013 quietly issued — without as much as a press release — an outline for a new nuclear waste program.

With a new federal nuclear waste program necessary and on the long - term horizon, the Natural Resources Defense Council sought to learn what state officials think should be done with the spent fuel and radioactive waste from America's 99 commercial nuclear reactors.

Not exact matches

The department has also recently awarded him $ 10 million as part of its Energy Research Center program so he can investigate new technologies to recycle nuclear waste and cleanup Cold War - era weapon production sites.

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.

The amendment did exclude those research and technology programs administered by the National Nuclear Security Administration and the nondefense Office of Nuclear Energy, as well as other DOE activities related to radioactive waste cleanup.

Hall questioned the Administration's decision to pull the plug on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, to cancel the Constellation space program to return astronauts to the moon, and to revamp a troubled $ 14 billion program to launch a flotilla of environmental satellites.

«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.

The program ensures effective citizen involvement in decisions about the future of the nuclear weapons complex relative to stopping approval of new production facilities and promoting disarmament and safer waste management and disposal at Department of Energy (DOE) sites.

Other SRIC program updates are our nuclear waste safety work regarding the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and Louisiana Energy Services (LES) Uranium Enrichment Plant.

Problems with implementing the federal nuclear waste repository program.

Those limits were in keeping with the 1979 law (Public Law 96 - 164, Section 213) that authorized WIPP «a research and development facility to demonstrate the safe disposal of radioactive wastes from the defense activities and programs of the United States exempted from regulation by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission» (NRC).

The many serious technical deficiencies of the Yucca Mountain site and DOE's flawed approach to geologic disposal notwithstanding, the most potentially explosive aspect of the federal program is the reality that tens of thousands of shipments of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive waste will travel the nation's highways and railroads - through 43 states and thousands of communities, day after day for upwards of 40 years.

DOE and its allies in Congress have long recognized that nuclear waste transportation is the Achilles» heel of the Yucca Mountain program.

The waste for almost all fission reactors (with the exception of bad actors in the US, USSR, and UK nuclear weapons programs) is and was in the past almost entirely sequestered from the environment.

But it offers no viable solutions to the raft of problems plaguing nuclear power, such as the erosion of public trust in this energy source in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, difficulties over the disposal of radioactive waste and the problem - plagued nuclear fuel recycling program.

She has organized and managed education and advocacy programs dealing with a wide range of energy and environmental issues, such as high level nuclear waste legislation, director of a solar installers» training and energy conservation installation program, coordination for numerous state, local and national conferences / strategy workshops, and has assisted community - based groups in establishing job - training / energy rehabilitation programs.

Twenty years ago in the early days of the civilian nuclear waste repository program, while we were struggling with a variety of issues as to how to assure the reproducibility of the analytical work, the kind of cavalier attitudes toward software QA / QC that is now demonstrated by many climate scientists was not all that uncommon among the many scientists employed by the repository project..

If the government insists on picking winners with subsidized technology programs, then nuclear strikes me as much more fruitfull, as it is already proven and close to economic and investment can be concentrated on marginal problems like waste disposal, rather than fundamental problems like «will this approach even work.»

The commercial nuclear program also produced another problem: radioactive waste.

For career DOE employees, which had to stand by the Obama administration's actions to terminate the program, and then endure the BRC's consideration of a fresh nuclear waste management strategy beyond Yucca Mountain, a sense of futility is pervading.

Via:: McClatchy News Bureau, «Clinton, Obama urge Senate to shut door on nuclear waste site» and Science Daily, «Options For Dealing With Spent Nuclear Fuel, National Research Council Report» Image credit:: Mineral County Yucca Mountain Oversight nuclear waste site» and Science Daily, «Options For Dealing With Spent Nuclear Fuel, National Research Council Report» Image credit:: Mineral County Yucca Mountain Oversight Nuclear Fuel, National Research Council Report» Image credit:: Mineral County Yucca Mountain Oversight Program

The vigorous and open national debate about nuclear power and the efforts to provide for safe long - term waste disposal are both commendable aspects of a successful nuclear program.