Sentences with phrase «radioactive waste created»

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.

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At the Hanford site, creating glass with radioactive waste is expected to start in around 2022 or 2023, Goel said, and «the implications of our research will be much more visible by that time.»

Late last month, the French industry minister, Dominique Strauss - Kahn, gave conditional backing to a plan devised by the nuclear industry to create what amounts to a politician's dream: a reactor that provides plenty of electricity without generating vast quantities of long - lived radioactive waste.

Running a fusion reactor creates a small amount of short - lived radioactive waste that decays away in around a century; high - level waste from traditional nuclear reactors can stick around for thousands of years.

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 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.

Toys or blankets from home are also not permitted because they would become contaminated and create more radioactive waste to be disposed of.

My own take on this is that people will take the short - term most efficiently expedient actions, which is also the worst thing they can do — they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create radioactive waste that can't be disposed of....

U.S. wind farms benefit wildlife by helping to keep our environment clean, as wind energy emits no air or water pollution, requires no fuel, uses no water in the production of power, and creates no hazardous or radioactive waste.

When it came to stopping the dumping of radioactive waste in the world's oceans (led by UK and not participated in by the US), it was Greenpeace and the Seamen's Unions (in response to their activism) that stopped the dumping — I was then a scientist / legal activist advising NGOs such as Greenpeace, AND when the governments eventually got the message that they had to clean up their act, I helped the UN create better protection of the marine environment.

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 are other obstacles as well, such as the facts that nuclear power plants take a long time and a lot of material to build, release radioactive material into the environment in «unplanned releases,» generate waste which must be kept isolated from the biosphere for as much as 10,000 years, and create more potential bomb material cruising around the economy.