In addition to these three properties, Investigative Post reported last July that state and federal officials in 1979 identified dozens of other residential and commercial properties — most in Niagara County — contaminated with what they believe is
radioactive industrial waste.
Not exact matches
Accusations fly over criminal dumping and scuttling of cargo ships carrying
industrial and
radioactive waste
Working on soil samples from a highly alkaline
industrial site in the Peak District, which is not
radioactive but does suffer from severe contamination with highly alkaline lime kiln
wastes, they discovered specialist «extremophile» bacteria that thrive under the alkaline conditions expected in cement - based
radioactive waste.
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.
Coal ash, which contains
radioactive material and heavy metals, including chromium, arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury, is China's number one source of solid
industrial waste.
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
This included fracking wastewater that state officials had allowed to be dumped at local sewer plants — facilities incapable of removing the complex mix of chemicals, corrosive salts, and
radioactive materials from that kind of
industrial waste before they piped the «treated» water back into Pennsylvania's rivers.
Major Environmental Issues: air pollution from heavy industry, emissions of coal - fired electric plants, and transportation in major cities;
industrial, municipal, and agricultural pollution of inland waterways and sea coasts; deforestation; soil erosion; soil contamination from improper application of agricultural chemicals; scattered areas of sometimes intense
radioactive contamination; ground water contamination from toxic
waste.