Sentences with phrase «radioactive waste deep»

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.

Plans to bury Britain's radioactive waste deep underground should be acted on immediately without the need for further research, the Royal Society has said.

Not exact matches

Much more care needs to be taken in choosing locations for deep - mine repositories for high - level radioactive waste.

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).

They are part of the radioactive waste which several governments — including the French — are planning to bury in deep underground repositories, thereby risking public anger.

The waste, hot from radioactive decay, is held in deep pools of water or in «dry casks» of concrete and steel that sit on reinforced pads.

Those were supposed to be the centerpiece of an $ 80 million, federally funded project to see whether the government could get rid of some highly radioactive waste by sticking it deep underground.

Boreholes envisioned for holding highly radioactive waste would be far deeper than proposed or existing underground disposal.

For example, an entire nuclear cycle involving light - water reactors, reprocessing of the spent fuel, and disposal of small «packages» of highly radioactive nuclear waste in deep boreholes could prove an attractive option, Moniz noted.

Though the concept of borehole disposal, which would see radioactive waste entombed far deeper than traditional repositories, has existed for decades, the idea has been revived in recent years, spurred by troubles in finding a long - term home for the country's spent fuel.

In mid-October, the federal government and the town of Deep River, Ontario announced that they would stop trying to build a repository near Deep River to contain the low - level radioactive wastes from Port Hope, Ontario.