Sentences with phrase «of radioactive waste»

The ultimate aim of this work is to improve our understanding of the safe disposal of radioactive waste underground by studying the unusual diet of these hazardous waste eating microbes.

Some critics question whether the department has fully developed a clear plan to dispose of the radioactive waste.

There will thus be remote operations required and large amounts of radioactive waste that will have to be handled and sent off site for cooling and maybe burial.

The committee pointed out that there is already a huge quantity of radioactive waste which is not in a form suitable for separation.

A typical nuclear plant generates about 20 tons of radioactive waste annually.

Now those 150,000 pounds or as much as 200,000 pounds of radioactive waste has to be stored, contained, and isolated perfectly — almost perfectly — for thousands of years.

It was founded to provide a forum for discussing and seeking cost - effective and environmentally responsible solutions to the safe management and disposition of radioactive waste and radioactive materials.

Although thermal reactors generate heat and thus electricity quite efficiently, they can not minimize the output of radioactive waste.

It is now a form of radioactive waste that has to be kept in a safe status for thousands of years afterward.

Among the major problems will be the disposal of radioactive waste; this has already created serious difficulties, with no satisfactory solution in sight.

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).

This was important, for example, in Greenpeace's successful campaign against the dumping of radioactive waste at sea in the early 1980s.

Safely storing an ever - increasing amount of radioactive waste for hundreds or thousands of years is not a technical problem?

The Surfrider Foundation is opposed to permanent or long - term storage of radioactive waste at the recently deactivated San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) due to its proximity to the coastline, susceptibility to geological instability and location within a densely populated area.

Dan Telvock of Investigative Post discusses the presence of radioactive waste in Niagara County during WBFO's Press Pass.

Would be a great point if it wasn't for TEPCO dumping millions of gallons of radioactive waste into the ocean everyday.

A team of scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) working in collaboration with Tohoku University, Tokyo City University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency has proposed a novel approach to tackle the problem of radioactive waste disposal.

The laws ruined the ambitious plans of one firm, Oceanic Disposal Management, incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, to drop tens of thousands of cubic meters of radioactive waste into the seabed off the African coast.

Her current research areas include chemistry of radioactive waste systems, environmental chemistry, actinide separations, and radioanalytical chemistry.

We've already done that with the opposite reaction, fission — the breaking of large atoms into smaller particles — which leaves us with the troublesome byproduct of radioactive waste.

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.

Pockets of radioactive waste have been identified at mostly - residential locations in Niagara County and on Grand Island.

There are about 1,300 dry casks at 55 sites nationwide; however, most of the radioactive waste generated in the United States sits in cooling pools similar to Japan's.

The majority of radioactive waste is «low - level waste», meaning it has low levels of radioactivity per mass or volume.

They are part of the radioactive waste which several governments — including the French — are planning to bury in deep underground repositories, thereby risking public anger.

ANOTHER 20 potentially lethal particles of radioactive waste have been found lying around the Dounreay nuclear complex in Scotland in the past month.

But we face another danger that is in many ways more threatening than a meltdown: the steady accumulation of radioactive waste.

Further to your Instant Expert on nuclear fission and objections to the idea of radioactive waste disposal via a rocket...

«One thing you won't see at Mountain Pass is a pond of radioactive waste,» Molycorp's Smith said.

The largest volume of radioactive waste, termed «intermediate level» and comprising of 364,000 m3 (enough to fill four Albert Halls), will be encased in concrete prior to disposal into underground vaults.

Germany has no permanent waste storage facilities for any type of radioactive waste, and temporary storage capacity is expected to be filled within five years.

If opponents succeed in blocking the Konrad plan, Germany could find itself without a place to put a growing pile of radioactive waste.

On the question of what to do about the nation's growing supply of radioactive waste from commercial nuclear power plants, Moniz said he would work to «push forward» the recommendations laid out in 2011 by a federal commission on which he served.

Fly Ash Bricks In the process of generating electricity, U.S. coal plants spew more than 70 million tons a year of a radioactive waste called fly ash.

During the next two years, as Nevada challenges or confronts DOE, Congress, and, perhaps, the NRC concerning various aspects of the Yucca Mountain program, it will be equally important to undertake efforts to assure that the issue of radioactive waste shipments, including the routes such shipments will use and the cities and communities that will be impacted, is given wide exposure nationally.

Dr. Boardman's career at the INL includes technical leadership thermal treatment of radioactive wastes and modeling and simulation of carbon conversion to power, synthetic fuels, chemicals, and hydrogen.

We CAN NOT fail to treat millions of gallons of radioactive waste sitting in failing underground tanks, no matter if they sit far from the Columbia River, the life blood of the Pacific Northwest or the five miles from the river as they truly do.

The long - term hazard of radioactive wastes arising from nuclear energy production is a matter of continued discussion and public concern in many countries.

However; nuclear energy still possess a number of harmful effects on the environment; and as a result it comprise of several costs that are associated with safety measures, emergencies, containment of radioactive waste, and its storage system.

In 1999, he pulled all kinds of maneuvers to stall the construction of a radioactive waste dump in Mojave Desert.

Our efforts to avert the irreversible burial of radioactive wastes bore fruit in another arena.

Ms. Zoi also oversees the safe and cost - effective cleanup of radioactive waste and facilities associated with the nation's weapons research programs.

On April 26, 2017, the High Court ruled that the $ 76 billion nuclear power project was unconstitutional — a landmark legal victory that protected South Africa from an unprecedented expansion of the nuclear industry and production of radioactive waste.

And the fact that private companies should not be disposing of this kind of material without serious government regulations (Mother Jones reports that the licenses for WSC «don't need detailed approval from federal nuclear regulators because the dump wouldn't handle the highest grades of radioactive waste») is only part of the issue.