Sentences with phrase «radioactive liquid waste»
This radioactive liquid waste will be headed for South Carolina, but its route could take it across the Peace Bridge and through the Buffalo area.
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But some experts and activists are concerned the route approval is a prelude to shipping highly radioactive liquid waste.
At present 5,900 tons of high - level waste (HLW) in the form of spent fuel assemblies are sitting in pools next to operating reactors, together with 75 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste, plus 27 million cubic feet of trans - uranic waste (TRU).
Not exact matches
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).
And yet, exposure occurs constantly, since radiation is released regularly from Indian Point in the form of liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive wastes.
As a matter of regular operation, radiation is released from Indian Point in the form of liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive wastes.
Higgins is also urging the US Department of Energy to conduct a full Environmental Impact study as a spill of any portion of the 6,000 gallons of liquid radioactive waste could pose threats to the Niagara River and the Great Lakes.
The Hanford cleanup mission commenced in 1989, and construction of a waste treatment plant for the liquid radioactive waste in tanks was launched a decade later and is more than three - fifths finished.
The household product was used to absorb liquid in radioactive debris at a waste disposal site in New Mexico where a radiation escaped to the surface and exposed 21 workers
The waste liquid in this image is the result of processing raw phosphate with sulphuric acid; it can be both acidic and faintly radioactive due to uranium that is found with phosphate ore.
An estimated 50 million gallons of liquid wastes from Cold War plutonium production processes - laced with radioactive caesium and strontium salts - were dumped in a 13.7 sq. mile area south of central Hanford's 177 underground radioactive waste tanks.
Liquid wastes containing radioactive caesium and strontium salts were stored in underground tanks at Hanford, which rabbits routinely burrowed into.