Sentences with phrase «produces radioactive waste»

Once the relatively clean - running nuclear plant is online, it produces radioactive waste in the form of spent fuel rods.

It uses no fissionables and produces no radioactive waste.

All this would be of substantially less concern if New York were like most of the other states that produce some radioactive waste during natural gas drilling.

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It would use abundant raw materials and produce no emissions or radioactive waste.

The generation enjoying the benefits of producing chemical and radioactive waste should consider investing a portion of today's profits in an endowment fund, gathered perhaps from a pollution tax.

They have difficulty in understanding why experts disagree, whether it be on the safety of particular procedures for disposing of radioactive wastes or on the chance of a herbicide producing deformities in new - born babies.

Among the surprising conclusions: the waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts.

«Our gel helps regain control of the radioactive material and produces 90 percent less waste than water,» claims Shaun McCabe, president of Asia - Pacific systems for CBI Polymers, which recently donated 100 five - gallon pails of its cleaner to the Fukushima cleanup effort and hopes to sell hundreds more there.

For every metric ton of uranium ore pulled from McArthur River, roughly one metric ton of waste rock, often radioactive and rich in toxic heavy metals, is produced — and other mines produce even more waste rock per ton of ore.

And yesterday, the collapse of a coal ash pond in Tennessee buried 12 houses and 400 acres — a reminder of the 129 million tons of radioactive and / or toxic waste left over after coal burning produced in the U.S. each year.

In a bid to restart discussion of what to do with the nation's nuclear waste, four U.S. senators today unveiled a draft plan to create a federal agency that would oversee short - and long - term storage of the highly radioactive materials produced primarily by commercial power reactors.

The immediate motivation for safe disposal is the radioactive waste stored currently at the Hanford Site, a facility in Washington State that produced plutonium for nuclear weapons during the Cold War.

In addition, the integral fast reactor can burn radioactive waste from other reactors and produce its own fuel.

And just like existing nuclear power plants, they produce long - lived, highly radioactive nuclear waste for which no safe management and permanent storage exists.

I can't remember any other energy source being put through so much study for so long before a single kilowatt was produced, except perhaps the kind that creates highly radioactive waste.

There is still no safe, reliable solution for dealing with the radioactive waste produced by nuclear plants.

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

Unlike nuclear fission, nuclear fusion would produce little radioactive waste.

For every pound of enriched uranium that goes into a nuclear reactor, more than 25,000 pounds of radioactive waste are produced in the mining and processing of uranium.