Sentences with phrase «of radioactive waste disposal»

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.

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Human groundwater contamination can be related to waste disposal (private sewage disposal systems, land disposal of solid waste, municipal wastewater, wastewater impoundments, land spreading of sludge, brine disposal from the petroleum industry, mine wastes, deep - well disposal of liquid wastes, animal feedlot wastes, radioactive wastes) or not directly related to waste disposal (accidents, certain agricultural activities, mining, highway deicing, acid rain, improper well construction and maintenance, road salt).

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.

However, the government is taking on the liabilities for potential accidents and, crucially, the disposal of radioactive waste should the companies go bust.

Short - term fixes Existing disposal facilities have adequate capacity for most low - level radioactive waste and are accessible to waste generators in the short term, but constraints on the long - term disposal of class B and C wastes have become clear, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office last year.

In 1980, Congress passed a law that made states responsible for disposal of their own wastes, but states were encouraged to form compacts to locate one low - level radioactive waste site for several states.

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.

For example, an entire nuclear cycle involving light - water reactors, reprocessing of the spent fuel, and disposal of small «packages» of highly radioactive nuclear waste in deep boreholes could prove an attractive option, Moniz noted.

While acknowledging that «no wreck has yet been found that contains toxic or radioactive waste,» physicist Massimo Scalia of the University of Rome, La Sapienza, who has chaired two parliamentary commissions on illegal waste disposal, argues that other vidence makes their existence «beyond reasonable doubt.»

Over the following decades other treaties expanded the regulations, culminating in a 1993 amendment to the London Dumping Convention that halted the ocean disposal of all radioactive waste and in a 1995 amendment to the Basel Convention that banned the deposition of the industrial world's lethal excreta in developing countries.

Billions of dollars have been spent to evaluate Yucca Mountain as disposal site for radioactive waste since the 1970s.

Since vitrification and disposal in a federal repository of highly radioactive waste is expensive, there is an advantage to first reducing the amount of the highly radioactive waste to be vitrified, with the goal of having to process less volume.

A disposal site on Yucca Mountain would need to hold up to 77,000 tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste for up to 1 million years.

«I don't believe anyone has taken a look, seriously, at what the unintended consequences are to dealing with these kinds of materials,» said Theodore Adams, the radioactive waste disposal consultant.

Though the concept of borehole disposal, which would see radioactive waste entombed far deeper than traditional repositories, has existed for decades, the idea has been revived in recent years, spurred by troubles in finding a long - term home for the country's spent fuel.

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.

The contract - which includes a one - year base period and four one - year option periods - provides continuing technical assistance and research support to NRC activities related to storage, transportation, possible reprocessing and ultimate geological disposal of used nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive wastes.

How to reduce nuclear wastes or how to treat them including the debris from TEPCO's Fukushima nuclear power stations is discussed; and 3) Environmental radioactivity, radioactive waste treatment and geological disposal policy.State - of - the - art technologies for overall back - end issues of the nuclear fuel cycle as well as the technologies of transmutation are presented here.

See Craig, «Disposal of radioactive wastes in the ocean,» in National Research Council (1957), 34 - 42.

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.

Until these risks are properly mitigated and the complete nuclear fuel cycle — from the mining and milling of uranium to the final disposal of radioactive wastes — is sufficiently regulated, nuclear power should not be a leading strategy for diversifying America's energy portfolio and reducing carbon pollution.

any nuclear reactor wherever located; any nuclear fuel cycle facility; any radioactive waste management facility; the transport and storage of nuclear fuels or radioactive wastes; the manufacture, use, storage, disposal and transport of radioisotopes for agricultural, industrial, medical and related scientific and research purposes; and the use of radioisotopes for power generation in space objects

to take title to and be responsible for the final disposition of radioactive waste created by the irradiation, processing, or purification of uranium leased under this section for which the Secretary determines the producer does not have access to a disposal path.