Sentences with phrase «nuclear waste project»

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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.

After 71 years, the federal government has decided that all the nuclear waste from the World War II atomic bomb project should be removed from Lewiston.

During his final year, Bourtourault did a short research project on the detection of ozone, a second one on the storage of nuclear waste, and a 4 - month internship at the state - owned Aérospatiale company, where he worked on nonpolluting anticorrosion treatments.

The waste presents significant challenges for Vit Plant project engineers and nuclear chemists.

The former nuclear weapons facility at Savannah River, Ga. — also part of the Manhattan Project — has been successfully vitrifying weapons waste for years, but only one fuel separation process was used there.

It underscores the treacherous path facing any major effort tied to nuclear waste, even when federal officials insist the project was a test that would never involve radioactive material.

In addition to not needing to refuel between flights, a nuclear - powered airplane in theory would not pollute the environment as long as the radioactive waste from its reactor could be contained (the Air Force's project never progressed far enough to come up with a practical way to address this).

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.

Recommendation: To improve DOE's management and oversight of the WTP project, the Secretary of Energy should not resume construction on the WTP's pretreatment and high - level waste facilities until critical technologies are tested and verified as effective, the facilities» design has been completed to the level established by nuclear industry guidelines, and Bechtel's preliminary documented safety analyses complies with DOE nuclear safety regulations.

The key challenge on this project was to ensure that the technical solutions were appropriate for a nuclear decommissioning project with complex radioactive waste streams, but where the aim has been to keep the design simple.

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.

Over the years, science has given way to raw politics as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and supporters of DOE's repository project in Congress have sought to obfuscate and compensate for an ever - multiplying set of flaws and problems with the site and with the notion of transporting unprecedented amounts of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level nuclear waste across the country.

Rusinko has held senior engineering management roles on complex technical projects including the national nuclear waste repository project at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, the Savannah River site in South Carolina, and the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant in Washington state.

Her resume also lists her as the Founder and Director of the Nuclear Waste Documentary Project, a nonprofit scientific organization that produces educational materials on nuclear waste issues for public television, museums, and sNuclear Waste Documentary Project, a nonprofit scientific organization that produces educational materials on nuclear waste issues for public television, museums, and snuclear waste issues for public television, museums, and schools.

5/9/17 — Congress recently took a preliminary step toward reviving the long - delayed plan to store the nation's nuclear waste under Yucca Mountain in Nevada, and President Trump has added funds for the project in his proposed budget, though controversy remains.

In a nutshell, local municipalities have a veto over the siting of new nuclear projects - including new units as well as final waste repositories.

His experience includes coal, oil, gas, hydro, geothermal, nuclear power plants, nuclear waste disposal, and a wide range of energy and end use management projects.

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 CCS is proposed in populated areas, one can expect there to be widespread public resistance to CCS projects in the same way that there are objections today to fracking and nuclear waste disposal.

We also have particular expertise in projects based in the nuclear, renewables, waste and water sectors.

Our lawyers are versed in US and international requirements covering new plants, power plant projects and transactions, plant regulation, nuclear liability issues, and all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining, enrichment, fabrication, and transport to nuclear waste management, decommissioning, and disposal.

• Optimized weld projects on pipelines — nuclear plants and power plants — waste energy plants — subsea weld and clad applications — shipyards (oil tankers)-- bridge construction and structural steel shops.

25 plus years of hands - on experience in muiti - discipline lead role with a major construction and engineering company and have worked on projects in diverse industry sectors such as, pipeline, mining, metals (Alcoa), nuclear waste disposal, petrochemical, telecoms, offshore and M.E.P. 25 plus years of hands - on experience in muiti - discipline lead role with a major construction and engineering company and have worked on project...