Sentences with phrase «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.

They have introduced a bill banning foreign import of low - level radioactive waste unless there is an exemption from the president.

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

- No increase in funding for radioactive waste cleanup, even though in a number of cases funding is already insufficient to meet legal milestones.

The ability to separate out reusable elements from other waste is crucial if the amount of long - lived radioactive waste is to be reduced.

The bulk of the green movement, however, remains hostile to the nuclear industry, largely because of worries about radioactive waste.

This completely ignores the fact that nuclear power generates radioactive waste, can never be 100 % safe and is a magnet for terrorist groups seeking targets and materials for attacks.

Work done there has inspired potential solutions to such global problems as radioactive waste, global warming, oil spills and cancer.

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

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

What happens to all that radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants?

But a place to throw such radioactive waste remains necessary.

Adding this ocean veggie to your diet is shown to help remove radioactive waste from your system.

A new study shows that a surprising amount of the plant's leaked radioactive waste has made its way into groundwater underneath nearby beaches.

The payoff, however, would be huge because fusion fuel is abundant in seawater and the reactor would produce minimal radioactive waste.

No risk, no large single points of failure, no risk of meltdown, no worries about handling future radioactive waste, and very high price transparency.

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

High - level radioactive waste is piling up around our nuclear power generation plants.

The tunnel contained rail cars filled with radioactive waste, leading to concerns of a radiation leak.

Every waste dump in the U.S. leaks radiation into the environment, and nuclear plants themselves are running out of ways to store highly radioactive waste on site.

It has been prepared in order to make information about the first Unites States Department of Energy (DOE) long - term nuclear legacy waste management program more available to the public and decision - makers concerned about radioactive waste management and clean - up.

A proposal to bury most of Germany's low and intermediate level radioactive waste at Schacht Konrad, a disused mine in Lower Saxony, has existed since 1975.

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.

Ten Russian inventors are filing patent applications in the West which give an alarming insight into the Eastern bloc's past policy on radioactive waste disposal.

Although bacteria with waste - eating properties have been discovered in relatively pristine soils before, this is the first time that microbes that can survive in the very harsh conditions expected in radioactive waste disposal sites have been found.

Other environmental concerns relate to the radioactive contamination of the Arctic Ocean from, for example, Russian radioactive waste dump sites in the Kara Sea [42] and Cold War nuclear test sites such as Novaya Zemlya.

In 1979 an earthen dam operated by United Nuclear Corporation near Church Rock in New Mexico broke, releasing 94 million gallons of low - level radioactive waste into the Rio Puerco.

The initial purpose of the CNWRA was to support licensing and regulatory oversight of the potential high - level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

Most recently, McCullough was project director for the $ 16.8 billion Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at the Department of Energy's Hanford site in Washington state, the nation's most complex radioactive waste treatment plant, leading the team that made significant progress toward construction completion and startup of the plant's first phase.

The MIT Study found that reprocessing and recycling plutonium — which creates weapon - usable material and some of the most radioactive waste in the world — is also uneconomic and likely to remain so for decades to come.

But Putin's nuclear torpedo uses radioactive waste to deter, scare, and potentially punish enemies for decades to come.

Solid radioactive wastes include laundry (considered low - level waste) and irradiated spent fuel (considered high - level waste.)

Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility has long opposed nuclear power — it says small modular reactors bring the same threats to human health and the environment as those posed by larger - scale nuclear plants, including radioactive waste from spent nuclear fuel.

Dan Telvock of Investigative Post discussed his recent story on radioactive waste during WBFO's Press Pass.

Such plants would not produce climate - changing gases, and they would create far less radioactive waste than current nuclear fission power plants; what's more, the fusion waste would be dangerous for only 50 to 100 years.

The collapse of a tunnel containing radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear weapons complex in Washington State underscored what critics have long been saying: The toxic remnants of the Cold War are being stored in haphazard and unsafe conditions, and time is running out to deal with the problem.

The U.K. is considering a plan to build two of General Electric's PRISM fast reactors, the latest in a series of fast - reactor designs that for several decades have attempted with mixed success to handle plutonium and other radioactive waste from nuclear power.

Since 2000, Bechtel has been building a plant in Hanford, Wash., to treat radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project and the Cold War.

As the U.S. makes new plans for disposing of spent nuclear fuel and other high - level radioactive waste deep underground, geologists are key to identifying safe burial sites and techniques.

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.